For Ricky Park, it all started when the balloon popped. The year was 1998, and Park was the child star of a hit network sitcom opposite a chimpanzee. Then a balloon popped, and unspeakable carnage followed. But the lesson Park … Continue reading NOPE
Like most nightmares, they appeared at night. Clad in red jumpsuits and leather driving gloves, wielding oversized golden shears. Who are they? They’re us: doppelgangers from below who’ve come to take their rightful place from the doubles living above. Led … Continue reading US
Why am I alive?” she asks.“I have no idea,” he replies with a kind smile. Those are the final words of Toy Story 4, Disney/Pixar’s latest, and reportedly last, addition to the beloved franchise that launched the computer-generated animation empire back … Continue reading TOY STORY 4
The story of Us begins in 1986, on the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk, with a young girl, Adelaide Wilson (Madison Curry), and her two parents. Dad’s a little drunk, but he does manage to win her a Thriller t-shirt and buy her … Continue reading US
It’s a famous shot from one of the most widely seen movies in the history of cinema: Scarlett O’Hara searching desperately for a doctor in a sea of wounded and dead soldiers. As Scarlett searches, the camera cranes high into … Continue reading BLACKKKLANSMAN
Get Out opens with a scene that might as well be ripped from newspaper headlines. Well, maybe it was. Andrew (Lakeith Stanfield), a black man, walks alone, at night, along a neighborhood street so quiet, so pleasant, so blandly cookie-cutter, it … Continue reading GET OUT
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