by Tessa Swehla, Associate Editor
It’s a difficult line for many children’s films to walk—entertaining both children and adults—but The Wild Robot walks it well, most likely due to the fact that its middle grade source material allows it to be more nuanced than your average children’s film.
by Ryan Silberstein, Managing Editor, Red Herring
A Quiet Place: Day One offers a surprising amount of depth underneath its thrills.
by Ryan Silberstein, Managing Editor, Red Herring
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever is a grief-forged geopolitical thriller that centers its characters’ emotional states.
by Megan Bailey, Staff Writer
There’s just something about home invasion horror movies. A subgenre in its own right, the films always include someone breaking into a house, obviously, but they often get more complicated than that.
Directed by Ryan Coogler (2018)
by Jaime Davis, The Fixer
Once upon a time, a young boy in the faraway land of Oakland walked into his local comic book shop. He'd already devoured all the typical superhero stuff, white men in tight bodysuits saving planets, traveling to exotic worlds in other dimensions, facing civilization's extinction over and over, saving it time after time. He absorbed these stories, believing in his own version of fairy tales. Yet, this boy wanted something different. He wanted to see titular heroes, not just folks on the fringes, who looked like him, who were black. One day he mustered up the courage to ask the shop employee if such a title existed. He was handed an issue of Black Panther.
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