The Toy Story franchise has always been about one thing: the toys. The franchise, which was started over thirty years ago and is now on its fifth installment, has always found Woody, Buzz, Jessie, Mr. Potato Head, Hamm, and the whole gang on some adventure to ultimately get back to their owner, Andy, in the first three films, or Bonnie in the last two. Whether it was being held hostage by a psychotic toy-torturer…
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Steven Spielberg’s last film, the magnificent and emotionally devastating The Fablemans, was Spielberg at his most personal, pulling back the curtain on his past and dissecting his own emotions during his childhood and his parents’ divorce. It is the most personal film in his filmography, and a side of Spielberg we had never seen before. With Spielberg’s latest film, Disclosure Day, Spielberg returns to the form that people most know him for with a big-budget…
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John Carney makes movies about how music can connect people. Whether it’s two strangers in Once, brothers in Sing Street, or a mother and son in Flora & Son, Carney shows how the power of music can bring people closer together. His latest film, Power Ballad, is no different, as it is a movie about how a song can be interpreted in different ways to bring those closer to the ones they love. Paul…
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Sometime in the 2010s, a photograph of a large, carpeted room with fluorescent lights and pale-yellow dividing walls circulated on various message boards. While seemingly a picture of nothing, in 2019, one 4chan user posted the image in a thread for “disquieting images that just feel ‘off,” on one of the paranormal-themed message boards. This sent other 4chan users into a tizzy, as they came up with their own origins and stories about this…
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