No three things go better together than Christmas, chaos, and love. That is, if the romcom genre has anything to say about the season. Happiest Season certainly has all three of these things in spades. When Abby (Kristen Stewart) goes to meet her girlfriend Harper’s (Mackenzie Davis) parents over Christmas, her plan to propose goes awry when Harper reveals that she hasn’t come out to her family yet. Continue reading “Review: ‘Happiest Season’ Is Flawed, But Still Fun”
Exposure therapy is a method of treatment targeted toward anxiety disorders. It works by exposing the patient to the source of their anxiety in a non-threatening environment in order to desensitize them to it. This is exactly what has happened to ghost movies over the past few decades. There are tropes that define nearly every entry in the genre and cause them to all be nearly identical save for a different mentally perturbed damsel in distress. Some of these tropes include, but are not limited to; prolonged silences filled with swelling string music as the protagonist wanders through a dark room, footprints appearing on the floor without any corporeal form attached to them, children talking to ghosts, children drawing disturbing pictures of themselves and said ghosts, and certain areas of creepy old houses being off limits to the protagonist. The Turning falls victim to all of these tropes and then some.
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With six films, a TV series, and countless video games, books, and comics under its belt, the Terminator franchise is one of the most prolific and recognizable action franchises in media. While the series has yet to have another entry as groundbreaking and universally loved as the first two films, that didn’t stop Deadpool director Tim Miller from trying.
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