The Wife, despite its familiar packaging, believes its method of delivery is substantially more clever than it is. A film whose very title thinks it’s doing something new and subversive, it results in little more than delivering a message as regressive…
Harlots 2×07 Review: Love Rules the Fate of All
Watching the penultimate episode of the second season of Harlots, it’s sometimes difficult to remember that it’s not the season finale. This season had a slower build, but the stakes were higher than ever for Margaret, this time because she…
Harlots 2×06 Review: The women struggle to transcend legacies of trauma
A major theme in Harlots is how violence abuse is perpetuated throughout generations, and how the various women in the show have coped with their trauma. Margaret’s mother was so unfeeling towards her daughter, she sold her off to Quigley,…
Harlots 2×05 Review: The Kids Are Not All Right
The latest episode of Harlots is all about the unexpected. Not that anything that happens will be much of a surprise to us. It’s more that the various members of the cast, with their constantly shifting allegiances and fortunes, must…
Harlots 2×04 Review: Danger inches closer to the unknowing Wells women
Wheels never spin for long on Harlots, and things are once again in full motion on the fourth episode of the show’s sophomore season. The women are firmly established in the places that will make or break them, with Quigley…
Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms Movie Review: Mari Okada’s directorial debut is a touching fable about love and aging
The story the anime Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms tells isn’t exactly a unique one, but there’s real power in how it unfolds, even if many of its elements are familiar. There’s a timid girl who is accidentally ripped…
Harlots 2×03 Review: Old ground is revisited while setting up the new
The third episode of Harlots may be mostly filler, but it’s more interesting than such episodes usually are, even if it mostly hammers home what we know before. Mostly, it shows the women inching forward in their respective storylines before…
