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…
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…
The T: A Review of the Hit Web Series
The T is a young adult drama directed by Bea Cordelia and Daniel Kyri that premiered on Open Television in 2018 . The show focuses on the relationship between two best friends, Jo and Carter and their queer identities. Both a part of the queer community, Jo is a transgender woman who works at an…
The Buzz: Week of April 13th
In this week of news for the leading ladies of Hollywood, Britney Spears and her boyfriend, Sam Asghari are expecting their first child together. Britney’s pregnancy with her third child comes after being freed from her father’s 13 year long conservatorship in November of 2021. Selena Gomez, also moving on and up, debuted her new…
The Buzz! Week of April 6th
Here’s the buzz! By Sophia Karesh and Sydney Britt In the latest update on Will Smith’s Slapgate, Amy Schumer expressed discontent about the fact that Smith was let on stage to slap Chris Rock but she wasn’t allowed to say one specific joke about Don’t Look Up and Alec Baldwin shooting someone on accident. Schumer’s…
Oscar-Winning CODA Tells a New Story Through a Classic Genre
CODA(2021), directed by Sian Heder, is an endearing film that spins just about every coming-of-age trope on its head and offers something simultaneously familiar and new. Praise from the film was heard all the way back during its debut at the Sundance Film Festival, but its ability to stay relevant into awards season, despite its…
Everything Everywhere All at Once – Review
There are movies where the creative energy is so bonkers, so high on its own imagination, that you find yourself hanging on by your fingernails. This can be a good thing, like Edgar Wright’s Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, Charlie Kaufman’s Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, or more recently, Boots Riley’s Sorry To Bother…
Who Is Jon Batiste? A Review Of The Album That Swept The Grammys
By Ashly Ibarra Jon Batiste took home five awards at the 64th annual Grammy Awards. After landing a total of eleven nominations Batiste took the prize of the night winning Album of the Year for “We Are.” Making him the first Black artist to win Album of the Year in 14 years. Other albums nominated…
Netflix Just Added This Classic, and It’s a Must-Watch
By: Catalina Perez de Arminan Whether you’re a rom-com fan or a Jack Nicholson fan, you may have heard of Something’s Gotta Give. Nicholson, known for his roles in suspense and horror films, such as The Shining, and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest plays a romantic one here. And he does so impeccably. However,…