The Promise 

Effortlessly beautiful and surprisingly tragic.

Remember Caroline from Vampire Diaries? Well, now she’s The Suitcase Killer, allegedly. 

Tarantino's alternative history of the 1960's uncritically repeats the era's sexist and racist stereotypes.

What starts off as a success story for a single mother living below the poverty line, slowly begins to weave itself into a tangled web of greed, guilt, and destruction.

What seems like such a simple story of survival is so much more than that—it’s a story of family, and of war, and of destruction. It’s painful to watch, but not in a bad way. It makes its audience reflect on their own actions, and in how they are complicit in the sufferings of others as the adults in this film are. Grave of the Fireflies does not hold back from being heartbreaking, and it shouldn’t. It tells a message that needs to be heard decades after the war, and a story that cannot be forgotten by history.

Cassie, a musician, and Luke, a man serving in the Marines, form a false relationship and keep it a secret.