Author: Allie Posner
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The World’s Strongest Female Lead: WW84
SPOILERS AHEAD! (Wonder Woman Movie Review) I think we can all agree that Wonder Woman is fiction’s strongest female lead to ever hit the big screen. However, it hurts my heart to say that her latest film appearance was not nearly as strong. With actors Gal Gadot and Chris Pine reprising their roles, my expectations…
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‘Someone Great’: Loss in the City
“We were so happy… idiots.” Someone Great is the reason I want to be in love and simultaneously, never fall in love again. When Jenny (Gina Rodriguez) and Nate (LaKeith Stanfield)- her long-term boyfriend of nine years- break up so Jenny can move to pursue her career in music journalism, Jenny leans on her two best…
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Disney’s Soul: An Exploration of Identity
Disney Pixar strikes again with another tear-jerking, introspective, animation masterpiece. With similarities to the previous Pixar film Inside Out, Soul takes intangible concepts like self and personality and makes them completely palpable and simple to digest. When Joe Gardner, voiced by Jaime Foxx, dies feeling unfulfilled, he gets sent on a journey with a new soul who…
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Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom; A Lesson in Blues -Movie Review
“Now death. Death got some style. Death will kick your ass and make you wish you never been born. That’s how bad death is. But you can rule over life. Life ain’t nothing” -Levee (Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom) Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, directed by George C. Wolfe and adapted from the August Wilson play, is a…
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Wake Up in the Mornin’ and Stumble Towards Acceptance with Dumplin’ (2018)- Movie Review
When Willowdean (Danielle Macdonald), the plus-sized daughter of beauty pageant extraordinaire and ex-pageant queen Rosie Dickinson (Jennifer Aniston) decides to enroll in this year’s Miss Teen Blue Bonnet Pagent, we follow her on a journey of self-acceptance and confidence tied up in a huge Texas bow of Dolly Parton music. With themes of loss and romance, this…
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Review: ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’
While this isn’t quite the ideal Black History Month watch, The Trial of the Chicago 7covers a very real history of protesting in America from the perspective of the 1968 Democratic National Convention protestors. While these protests looked very different from the ones America saw in the summer of 2020, protestors risked their lives to have…