
Two friends discover how awfully boring their lives are and believe that learning magic is the key to making their lives interesting. On their journey to learn and practice the ways of magic they find themselves involved in cults, robbery, and magic crystals. Is magic really the solution to all their problems?
"WHAT ARE YOU WILLING TO SACRIFICE?!!!!" "EVERYTHING!!!!!" This is but one of a multitude of highly emphatic questions, and subsequent answers, being asked in the newest feature film from one of the current masters of horror, Jordan Peele ("Get Out", "Us" and "Nope"). I must give Peele credit in that he continues to push the boundaries of specific genres and their associated tropes in order to provide what ends up amounting to subtly then jarringly intense, yet still character and story-driven, cinema that speaks more to indie stylings than mainstream.
For anyone who is not a cis white woman, a justice-fueled murderous rampage is not framed as liberation. Instead, they contribute to harsh stereotypes that vilify minority women with dangerous consequences.
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.
A historic documentary about the iconic Disney character gives viewers a glimpse into animation.
As legal dramas go, we rarely see an African-American actor in the lead role. "The Burial" has several.