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“Life doesn’t have to be so planned. Just roll with it and let it happen” Jenny Han’s New York Time’s best selling novel To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before proved to be an even bigger hit when the movie premiered on Netflix late August. And, since then, everyone has been unable to stop talking about
Hot Summer Nights first premiered over a year ago at SXSW, and was just released into certain theaters around the U.S. last month. This A24 film follows a teenager named Daniel (played by the talented Timothée Chalamet) as he gets wrapped up in the world of drugs during a summer in Cape Cod. Now, for anyone
This review contains spoilers. The title flashes on the screen and then goes to black. The audience laughs in joint confusion. Did the movie end just like that? Is Boots Riley really gonna do that to us? The answer is yes. But what led up to that abrupt ending was mind-blowing. Going into Sorry to
It has recently been announced that the book Adam by Ariel Schrag is going to be turned into a movie. Though being released in 2014, attention has been brought to this book as of recent for the problematic ways it displays lesbians and transgender people. Adam is the story of a 17-year-old boy who spends
Hereditary. The Kissing Booth. The Greatest Showman. These are all movies from the past year in which the scores from official film critics on Rotten Tomatoes have been notably higher or lower than the user decided audience score, and this issue in general has caused a fair amount of debate over the past couple of years. It
In a capitalist society, we as consumers vote with our wallets on what cultural content we prefer and apparently want more of. This is why there are numerous films out right now that are attached to other franchises: they are reliable money makers. Whilst this definitely reduces the number of risks Hollywood studios are willing
I have just finished my first year of university, in which I took Film Studies (you specialise in your first year in the UK). Having not studied it at all at school, I had no clue what to expect and little guidance on what would be helpful before I began. But if another student had
Between the controversial Revenge of the Sith and the generally well regarded The Force Awakens, there was a decade-long gap rife with speculation and a lack of clarity on where the Star Wars franchise might go next. Putting aside the Clone Wars series and additional expanded universe works like games and novels that the general public may not
Up until a few months ago Moulin Rouge was one of those movies I was heard about and I would see it, but never actually got around to it. I, much like so many of my friends, knew most of the words to Lady Marmalade, the huge hit sung by the early 2000s music super
Hannah Fidell first burst onto the scene at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival with her debut feature film A Teacher. Two years later, Fidell’s second feature 6 Years premiered at the 2015 South by Southwest Film Festival before quickly landing a $1 million distribution deal with Netflix. Propelled by fantastic performances from leads Taissa Farmiga and Ben
I’m sure at least some of the readers and writers of Affinity will be personally familiar with the concept of the VHS. No menu, poor picture quality, and having to rewind all the way back to the start of the film to watch it again (keeping your eyes closed the whole time to avoid spoilers
It’s a scenario we’ve all been in: you get in after work or school, you sit down with friends or family, and you try to find a movie to put on. What’s the first thing you do when you think of one? Google the title, look at the Rotten Tomatoes rating and decide based on
