Basically: NOPE is Jordan Peele’s JAWS turned up into a sensory spectacle Jordan Peele, much like Hitchcock, Serling, Clouzot, and even Shyamalan, has sculpted a niche out of the horror-tinged thriller genre—to such a stylistic degree it is a fingerprint. Exhibit A: During the first third of his films, Peele creates a symbolic framework of backstory, objects, trauma, character idiosyncrasies, and music. Those become the 3D glasses we as the audience use to fully experience the context as well as the denouement of the story. Exhibit B: Black American culture. Period. Blackness in all of its hues is another signifier… Read more »
The Minions have another adventure in the 70s with young Gru as he tries to be a supervillain.
Today we talk about The Sandman coming to Netflix, The PIXIES’ new album, and a brand new way to do Taco Bell. The Sandman is Coming to Netflix Netflix is keeping the great content coming with The Sandman set to hit the streaming service on August 5th. During their panel at Geeked Week, they dropped the official teaser trailer and announced that Mark Hamill is joining the cast as the voice of Merv Pumpkinhead. The show is based on the DC comic series written by Neil Gaiman. We will follow the journey of the Sandman AKA Dream, the one in… Read more »
Last year a report from USC brought to light that Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders make up less than 6% of speaking roles in the entertainment industry and 4% of lead roles. The study looked at 13,000 popular films and found that of the 4% with AAPI leads, only 6 were women, 0 were women over 40, 0 were in the LGBTQ+ community, and 14 were Dwayne Johnson. The numbers for people behind the camera were incredibly low as well. Every year, for one month, we tell people in the AAPI community they are important. We tell them we want… Read more »
A recap on a short but sweet season of Demon Slayer. Obtaining the right amount of satisfaction to anyone taking their time to watch.
A Hollywood buddy cop movie with the power of The Disney Afternoon of the 1990s.
It’s a dark knight on Geek Girl Riot…because we’re getting you fired up for The Batman. But first: We talk about all things Cyrano.
Surprisingly this is the fourth instalment of the franchise that’s still about Dracula not liking his daughter’s partner.
The encore of the surprising movie about a ragtag group of animals who love to sing.
People with demons can easily become them…
