Mamoru Hosoda’s Scarlet, a derivative adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet. The film begins with the most spiritually charged image of the Japanese animator’s career as the titular character (voiced by Mana Ashida) arrives in the “Otherworld,” a purgatory that stands between life and “nothingness.” Scarlet attempts to fight her internal (and external) demons and prove to the forces that be that
Read MorePercy Jackson and the Olympians season 2 returned with much more confidence than the first. There wasn’t a lot of careful threading, like in season 1, to test out the waters. There’s no more burden of introduction to this world, explaining who the gods are and their role in all of it, how demigods are born, what Camp Half-Blood is, etc.
Read MoreIt’s been two years since the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series debuted on Disney+. Now the season 2 premiere episodes have thrown us right back into this world, and from the first minutes, it looks like we’re in for another great adaptation of the books. The first season was all about Percy (Walker Scobell) discovering the truth that he was
Read MoreWicked: For Good has finally flown into theaters worldwide after an excruciating year-long wait! The second half of the popular Broadway show, For Good explores Elphaba fighting to expose the lying Wizard of Oz and intersects with Dorothy’s mission to defeat her. But the film deliberately glosses over Dorothy’s story, assuming audiences are already intimately familiar with her journey from the
Read MoreA24’s Eternity is a story about the journey rather than the destination. The question of whether an afterlife exists and what it consists of has been a topic of debate since the beginning of time. Since the advent of film, filmmakers have endeavored to explore this concept. Eternity presents an afterlife where the newly deceased must choose a destination to spend their
Read MoreFollowing the smash hit Wicked on the Broadway stage back in 2003, it was only inevitable that a film adaptation would eventually follow suit with last year’s Wicked and this year’s Wicked: For Good. For Good marks an interesting crossroad of sorts in the story as it adapts act two and onwards of the show, which has been infamously cited as a
Read MoreSeason four of Netflix’s The Witcher is a soft reboot of the series, and no one hides it. It is bigger in scale, more determined in its serious tone, and works better at moments than the last two seasons. It’s one of those Netflix projects that must do two things at once. It must reintroduce us to a well-known world with
Read MoreGoing into Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Infinity Castle (that title is a mouthful, which is why it will be mostly referred to as “Infinity Castle” from now on), it was immediately apparent that the first part of a planned trilogy of films to wrap up Koyoharu Gotuge’s adaptation of his own manga series would be filled with
Read MoreIt’s hard to believe that we’re nearing 7 years since The Amazing World of Gumball ended back in 2019. The classic Cartoon Network series is beloved by many, so it made it all the more painful when it not only left our TV screens but ended on a cliffhanger with the final episode, “The Inquisition.” But now, the blue cat is
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