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Kendrick Lamar's music is experimental, progressive and critical; yet, reminiscent of the classic hip-hop era and the way of using music as a form of social protest, drawing attention to the effects of violence, culture, American capitalism, conservative politics and the way they push marginalised groups to the peripheries.
While the golden age of vampire films is long gone, and their last resurgence with the Twilight saga left us with a bitter aftertaste of toxic relationships, zombies are almost impossible to kill. Because more than any other movie monster, zombies are not the heart or core of a story, but rather a context.
With the release of the new live-action movies The Little Mermaid, played by Halle Bailey, and most recently Peter Pan & Wendy starring Yara Shahidi, addressing the controversial topic of racebending fictional characters is more important than ever. At first, this conversation topic made me pretty angry. Obviously, due to the nature of the internet […]
In this age of social media and internet everywhere, we are all obsessed with screens – you are currently even staring at one while still trying to figure out whether this text is worth the effort! But the screen in front of you could also be the stage for a movie like Missing: Missing is […]
“Babylon” paints the picture of Hollywood as the city of cinema during the transition from silent movies to talkies.
“Holy Spider”, Denmark’s official submission for Best International Film at the Academy Awards 2023 is awfully hard to watch and a purposefully nasty piece of work – but could any responsible version of this horrific true crime exist that isn’t? As writer-director Ali Abbasi said in a recent interview: “My intention was not to make […]
What is it to have feelings for same-sex people, not fit beauty standards, to be normal among extraordinary people, and how to deal with trauma and grief are some of the themes seen in recent films, which we wish we would’ve watched in our early years so we could be more open and sensitive about current issues.
As social and economic crises hit these generations the most, to monetise feelings of comfort, security and love is to head back to the 90s and early 00s: Everywhere we look there’s a reboot, remake, revival and anything else that stands for reproducing these decades. Are we stuck in the past or our present simply sucks?
Last week saw the world premiere of Rheingold, the newest movie by acclaimed German director Fatih Akin. Rheingold does not only mark his 22nd directing credit – including the critically acclaimed Gegen die Wand (Head-On, 2004) and Golden Globe-winning Aus dem Nichts (In the Fade, 2017). Rheingold‘s topic is the biography of German-Iranian rap star […]
The history of witches in pop culture is not only one about bad witches and evil acts but about hostilities and tensions in a patriarchal society that’s at odds with women, and witchcraft has historically been a way for women to step outside the bounds of society — or to fully reinforce it and conform to it, as seen on Bewitched.
