In the aftermath of her mother’s death, Nour awaits a visit from her aunt. Nour’s mother used to say that her aunt was a vampire, and as she anticipates her arrival Nour ruminates on her mother’s life and experiences as an Arab immigrant in the American Rust Belt.
Escape The Field is a serviceable horror thriller. The characters are easier to remember as horror character tropes. As I wrote this review, I only remembered the characters by their tropes: #FinalGirl, #Everyman, #Badass, #MeanB*/SexyGirl, #Realist/BlackLesbian, and #TheNerd.
Gay representation is out there, but to portray a character who's gay as a big, happy brute is a rare treat.
This animated kids' movie shows viewers two different species--jungle animals and aliens--and how both species coexist.
This is not a story of oppression but a story of liberation.
If the message here is that without a support system, grieving people turn into monsters, it’s not really well-delivered and may be flawed as a message itself.
Ever since the mid-’90s, the Mortal Kombat game franchise has seen multiple attempts to make it on the big screen, or at least adapted into other media.
