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Damsel 2024
There’s an approach that filmmakers have taken to the fantasy genre in recent years, specifically with an eye on race and gender, that excitingly challenges narrative expectations and tropes. Due to the potential that genre films tend to feature thanks to room for imagination and breaking away from reality only to mirror it back on audiences, it’s been a fruitful time for fantasy, science fiction, and horror audiences. The damsel-in-distress is a particularly annoying cliche that tends to litter fantasy…
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Badland Hunters 2024
Last year’s Concrete Utopia was a fascinating, if maybe a little uneven, disaster film that saw an earthquake destroy Seoul and cause people to flock to a single-standing apartment building for refuge. Its social and class critiques were engaging, and Um Tae-hwa’s film quickly revealed the ways people behave when their future is uncertain. It’s not an inherently uninteresting observation, but it is a little surprising that the film’s premise of a ruined Seoul is now the launching pad for…
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Things Will Be Different 2024
SXSW 2024
Time travel films have often interrogated the personal motivations behind applying the technology. More often than not, it’s to right a wrong to find some sense of resolution or closure. The personal reasons that drive characters to utilize an often misunderstood technology or one where consequences are frequently underestimated serve as the backbone of a narrative that can either get convoluted or extremely intimate, depending on how the filmmakers want to approach the concept. Michael Felker’s Things Will…
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The Wandering Earth II 2023
Situated somewhere between nationalism and science fiction disaster film, The Wandering Earth II is a bewildering experience for a prequel to a movie that so effortlessly glosses over its insane premise in exchange for space-age thrills. The first film leaned into the fact that it was a spectacle – and one that dominated the box office in China to become the country’s fifth highest-grossing film of all time, with a reported budget of $50 million. The Wandering Earth II does…
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Glass Onion 2022
GLASS ONION: A KNIVES OUT MYSTERY is a riot. So much fun and always shifting into something fresh and exciting. Daniel Craig has fully embodied Benoit Blanc and it's beautiful.