By Sydney Britt Last year we were gifted with a brand-new Guillermo del Toro film, Nightmare Alley, a remake of the 1947 film of the same name. The movie, a feat in visual storytelling as all del Toro movies are, was relatively well-received with 79% of Google users liking the film and an 80% rating…
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Teen romance sequels and the token BIPOC trend
By Sydney Britt Hollywood has long promoted the concept of a token BIPOC character, meaning a diverse actor that was added to a film to score brownie points. It is a thinly veiled attempt at looking diverse without actually trying to be diverse. And in recent years, Netflix has become one of the biggest perpetrators…
Tall Girl 2 takes the ‘tall’ out of Tall Girl and falls flat
It is difficult to make a movie with such little grounds to stand on plot-wise and make it a financial success, but the original Tall Girl managed to lampoon itself into pop culture memedom due to its weak premise. The premise is self-explanatory; it is a movie about a tall girl and how hard it…