Two grandmothers hide the death of their friend’s parrot, but the “crime” turns into an unexpected miracle. Believers, an opportunistic pastor, and a politician take advantage of the phenomenon. While the Church grows suspicious, the desperate grandmothers do everything they can to hide the truth, knowing they’ll be in serious trouble if it comes out.
One Night in Miami... did not frame the racism and bigotry as something that could be solved by quality time spent between individuals. Instead, it featured four different legends of Black History together in one room disagreeing for about 2/3 of the film.
A Black woman centered in a box office rom-com with a happy ending and no struggle love.
A cat-and-mouse chase that will make viewers nostalgic for the cartoon series.
Michael Shanks’ Together is a queasy, hilarious, and surprisingly heartfelt body-horror trip that fuses love and terror in the most literal sense. Starring real-life couple Dave Franco and Alison Brie, this midnight gem twists Plato’s soulmate myth into a gory, darkly funny tale of codependency, cults, and chainsaws — equal parts romance and nightmare.
The legacy of this movie starts off the film series with a bang of magic, plot twists, and battles.
It only seems to prove that when the company had their backs against the wall and needed an all pleasing, generic movie that had to make up for The Last Jedi, they chose to sacrifice almost everything that made their main protagonist interesting and that made her stand out as the strong female character that a generation of young movie goers was supposed to look up to. Instead, we were left with a Rey that was so much less than she could have been. And I guess that’s the real story of Rey and The Rise of Skywalker; they could have been so much more, but they were just more of the same.
