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Among Netflix’s newest additions this April is A Land Imagined: the Singaporean, neo–noir winner of the 71st Locarno Film Festival’s Golden Leopard. Sounds niche—but neo–noir might be more familiar than you think.
We all loved Noah Centineo in To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before, because really, what was not to love? The overwhelmingly positive—and slightly obsessive—response to this cliché yet innovative film was well–deserved. However, Netflix has taken a great movie and the refreshingly adorable Peter Kavinsky (Noah Centineo) and overused them both to the point where they become dull and false in their new film The Perfect Date — and they’ve exposed Centineo’s uncomfortably bad acting in the process.
It comes as no shock that the final leg of the third trilogy of the Star Wars revival will be the most anticipated release this Christmas. Though the franchise has had a rocky road to its ninth film, the end of principal photography garnered a positive response from fans and built excitement for the film. Just last week, at an extensive panel with director J.J. Abrams and the cast, the teaser trailer for the finale of the trilogy dropped. With it, there is much to unpack, and I will break it down by section.
Unless you have been living under a rock for the past few weeks, or purposefully avoiding popular culture, you may know that a little film named Avengers: Endgame is due to come out in two weeks—on April 26, to be exact. Whether you have read every Marvel comic, or are only seeing this movie because your friend has read every Marvel comic, Street has got you covered on how to get up to speed for what is poised to be the biggest movie of all time.
After almost two years of waiting, Winter has finally returned, and I want a jacket because it is absolutely chilling. As an avid watcher and a dedicated fan of A Song of Ice and Fire, I have been waiting for many of the payoffs that we saw in last night's episode for years. While the premiere was visually stunning and full of content, this is not the same Game of Thrones that I once loved.
Avengers: Endgame has officially been set to release on April 25, and Marvel fans couldn't be more excited. It's a bittersweet day—the movie will finally answer all the questions posed in its predecessor, Avengers: Infinity War, but it will also mark the end of the Marvel Universe's current generation. From 2008 to 2019, we have grown up with these Marvel movies—but some are better than others. If you're looking to binge Marvel films before Endgame comes out, take a look at this ranking of Marvel's best and worst.
The sitcom is one of the most treasured forms of American media, often defining a generation with a specific sense of humor and creating a common language among its viewers. The “situational comedy” centers on a set of characters in the same setting as they go about their lives—they enter new relationships, lose others, and have to make grand life choices before our very eyes. Perhaps one of the most influential shows for the current generation has been Friends, which, while premiering in the 1990s, has enjoyed a revival among an audience of young adults with time to kill.
I wasn’t entirely sure what to expect when I settled into my seat at the Ritz at the Bourse to see The Aftermath. I hadn’t seen a trailer and I hadn’t read the book, but I knew that Keira Knightley starred in the film alongside Alexander Skarsgård and Jason Clarke, so I had high hopes.
The strange and ever–changing horror genre seems to currently be dominated by names like Jordan Peele, Ari Aster, and John Krasinski—and rightly so. Their works are inventive, terrifying, and challenge viewers to redefine what they believe to be the typical horror film. But no matter how much time has passed, we can't overlook the classics—and no one does classic horror better than Stephen King.
Anime has been granted its boom in the West. Shows and movies that might've only been found on Cartoon Network in the early 2000s, and only watched by nerdy kids, have weaved their way into mainstream culture—in lyric references, on Kim K’s Instagram, and even at the Oscars. What’s all the talk about? And why do so many rappers rap about going “Super Saiyan?”
Of all villains in comic book history, the most famous is certainly The Joker. His green hair, red lips, purple suit, and too–wide grin are lodged into the collective cultural knowledge of not just comic book villains, but villains in general. He is not only the most recognizable villain, but perhaps the most interesting to follow when it comes to his film adaptations, with the tragic story of Heath Ledger’s run followed by the disappointing revival by Jared Leto. After the cancellation of Leto’s Joker film following the painfully embarrassing Suicide Squad, the fate of DC’s most iconic villain remained up in the air—until now.
There’s no question that movie theater attendance has been dropping. Wall Street has even speculated that the advent of streaming services has doomed movie theaters to extinction. But are they really doing that poorly?
"Formerly a Planned Parenthood director, I now work to save lives."
On March 29, 2019, the world of cinema lost one of its greats. Agnès Varda, known as the grande dame of the French New Wave, passed away in Paris at 90 years old. Her long career began in the 1950s and amounted to a rich filmography of both narrative and documentary films. At age 89, Varda was nominated for an Academy award for Faces Places, a feature documentary she created alongside the photographer JR exploring the villages and characters of the French countryside. Varda’s filmmaking, like many of those working within the French New Wave cinematic movement, sought to achieve a documentary realism that melded fiction and nonfiction. Remarkably, Varda’s distinctive, experimental style emerged before many of the most renowned figures of the French New Wave.
Stone–faced killer, religious workaholic, and a man of great stature: Michael Shannon is drama’s most understated villain. He’s known for his roles as Strickland in The Shape of Water, General Zod in Man of Steel, and Nelson Van Alden in Boardwalk Empire—three antagonists, drastically different in character and story, but all played with the same nuanced intensity.
When Debra Goldstein, an environmental attorney, returned to Philadelphia from the Washington DC Environmental Film Festival, she knew she had to take action. “I thought, ‘someone needs to do something like this in Philly,’” she explains. “I realized that I needed to do that to make it happen.” Goldstein—who is now the passionate co-founder and executive director of the Philadelphia Environmental Film Festival—did just that.
Have you found yourself pondering the meaning of life more than usual? Have you started to accept that certain things—like life—are fundamentally unknowable? Have you Googled anything along the lines of "What's the point?" in the last five days? Congratulations—it seems that you may be having an existential crisis.
Fans have been waiting two years for the final season of Game of Thrones, and what better to do with all that time than speculate? Here are the top five fan theories for season eight, ranked from likely to completely out–there. Warning: spoilers ahead for all previous seasons.
It’s been said that if you were to meet an exact copy of yourself, you wouldn’t recognize the copy as being you. That’s partly because we can only see our own image in reverse. Whether it be in mirrors or in pre–flipped selfie cameras, the us we recognize isn’t us at all. Instead, the version of ourselves with which we are most familiar is our opposite, our exact converse staring back at us. And this version is the only self that we know.
Whether you love it or hate it, Spring Breakers has a kind of mythic presence in popular culture for the last decade. Its extreme raunchiness, high–profile cast, and distinctive style are all grounds to remember this gloriously distasteful piece of cinema. It's also a tremendously polarizing film, hailed as both an explosive commentary on morally bankrupt youth culture and a gross trainwreck with poorly written characters and empty–headed superficiality. While unnerving, Spring Breakers is, in fact, a good movie. It makes the conscious decision to subvert the ordinary markers of good storytelling in exchange for a dreamlike editing style full of hypnotic, auditory, and visual resonances. There may be a bounty of things to hate about Spring Breakers but none of them can fully undermine Harmony Korine’s ability to develop such a dark and twisted spring break fantasy.
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