Despite my great disappointment in Season 1 of Netflix’s live-action adaptation of Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko’s beloved animated show, the first episode of Season 2 was so shockingly different under the new showrunners Christine Boylan and Jabbar Raisani that it has made me hopeful that this version has a reason to exist. Episode … Read more
As a mega fan of Nickelodeon’s Avatar: the Last Airbender, it is probably of no surprise that I was disappointed with the first season of Netflix’s live-action adaptation of the beloved children’s show. I was there on day one as an 11-year-old, and since the show finished in 2008 my love for the universe has only grown. … Read more
Comparing Rebel Ridge to First Blood (1982) is almost too easy. I mean, don’t get me wrong, there’s a good reason you’ll see people calling Rebel Ridge a modern take on First Blood (1982) all over the internet. They do have plenty of similarities; however, the ways in which they’re different is where both movies … Read more
Going into Wake Up, it would be easy to expect some kind of anti-woke, far-right power fantasy. The premise practically invites that reading of it. A group of self-important Gen Z activists are breaking into a fictional Ikea equivalent and vandalizing it in an attempt to raise awareness of the countless animals that have to … Read more
Terminator is one of those film franchises from the 80s Hollywood just can’t seem to leave alone. Every couple of years there’s a new movie coming out, and basically every time people hate it. Which is why I never bothered to watch any of them apart from the first two, which are, of course, fantastic. … Read more
Samira (Lupita Nyong’o) is about to die. Not for the reason the rest of the world is, the aliens hypersensitive to sound that just crashlanded on earth, but because she’s terminally ill. So when the apocalpyse arrives in the middle of New York City, she doesn’t break out into the same kind of panic that … Read more
For many, the name George Miller is synonymous with the Mad Max franchise, but more than that, he’s one of the most creative directors working in Hollywood right now, with an eclectic filmography that almost feels like a joke at first glance. Yes, the filmmaker behind the Mad Max franchise also came up with Happy … Read more
Netflix’s new prestige TV show Ripley from Steven Zaillian, the writer behind fantastic movies like Schindler’s List (1993) and The Irishman (2019), isn’t the first adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s classic novel The Talented Mr. Ripley (1955), and it wouldn’t surprise me if it doesn’t end up being the last. The timing is interesting given we … Read more
We live in an era right now where every somewhat notable horror movie from the past needs to get a legacy sequel of some sort. And I know this trend isn’t exclusive to the horror genre, but where else would you get a masterpiece like The Exorcist: Believer? David Gordon Green is really delivering the … Read more
All my life, I’ve had a hard time trying to connect to my own heritage. I was born and raised in the United States, which was universally common among other Indians my age growing up in South Carolina. But the thing that set me apart is that my mother, fully Indian by race, was also … Read more
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