It could be that we’re having an ‘80s revival where the masses are craving teenage coming-of-age films, but the production time and clichés that worked for John Hughes back then aren’t translating to today’s audiences.
I am sick of watching television shows that paint women in their 20’s as codependent, emotionally infantile, and shallow people, not to mention completely lacking the real mindset of young women. I find shows like Girls to be insulting because they claim to represent women my age (25), but all I see are whiny spoiled […]Read Post ›
One could very easily write a long research paper about Black Panther. Much has already been said about the importance of its powerful and groundbreaking mainstream representation, from Time Magazine’s February 19 cover story by Jamil Smith, to the Twitter campaign #WhatBlackPantherMeanstoMe begun by Kayla Sutton of the website Black Girl Nerds, to a flood […]Read Post ›
Lizzie Nichols is an illustrator based out of Los Angeles, California. She is currently a Visual Development Artist at Sony Pictures Animation, has worked as Lead Set Designer at Rubicon Group Holdings (RGH), and is a former Disney Imagineer. Lizzie is responsible for creating animated worlds and characters that help tell a specific story. You can […]Read Post ›
Greta Gerwig’s directorial debut, Lady Bird, has become a cultural phenomenon. Earning a score 100% on Rotten Tomatoes while garnering the most reviews in history, it would be an understatement to say that this indie film far exceeded commercial expectations. When I heard about this film, I wondered, how did this subtle look into the mundane […]Read Post ›
by Morgan Moore and Catherine Harlow As the first full length feature film animated entirely with oil paintings, “Loving Vincent” is unlike anything we have ever seen before. True, that may be stating the obvious, but it is one thing to know that fact and another to see it in action. Even having seen […]Read Post ›
This past week I have been enamored by the television show Schitt’s Creek, which is written and produced by the dynamic duo Eugene and Dan Levy. For the first three episodes, I found the characters to be hilarious and engaging, but something about the episodes felt different. I couldn’t quite put my finger on it, […]Read Post ›
One of the most important parts of developing a screenplay is writing the scene cards. This consists of the breakdown of each scene, one per note card, via a few sentences. It’s where you really flesh out what works and what doesn’t work and it gives you a chance to have a concrete idea of […]Read Post ›
Dunkirk: Allied soldiers from Belgium, the British Empire, and France are surrounded by the German army and evacuated during a fierce battle in World War II. Atomic Blonde: An undercover MI6 agent is sent to Berlin during the Cold War to investigate the murder of a fellow agent and recover a missing list of double agents. Recently […]Read Post ›
I am a millennial: eating that avocado toast, being unable to afford a home, and watching entirely too much Netflix. I often find myself in the section of Netflix of period dramas because I love that they tend to focus on the stories of women. The characters are relatable, the set design has to […]Read Post ›
