The new Hulu television series The Handmaid’s Tale remains in many ways faithful to Margaret Atwood’s dystopian novel. Both the show and the book tell the story of a society with a declining birthrate that forces fertile women, dubbed “handmaids,” to bear children for wealthy men and their barren wives. But Atwood wrote the book on a typewriter in 1984; much has changed since then, both technologically and socially.
And so the show has updated itself to reflect the current times. Read More...
Perhaps it’s appropriate that the day on which Americanscelebrate mothers has an odd set of parents: President Woodrow Wilson is usually seen as the “father” of Mother’s Day — for signing a proclamation on May 9, 1914, declaring the second Sunday of May “a public expression of our love and reverence for the mothers of our country” — while copywriter Anna Jarvis is usually seen as the “mother” of Mother’s Day, for creating the movement that led to the proclamation. Read More...
Michael Mohan's erotic thriller derives its basic premise from 2012's Hitchcock's rear window directed by Joe Wright. While taking inspiration is not a critical issue in storytelling but having a twisted ideology is. Mohan's written film is sensational but not moral enough. It's pure entertainment, and I hope viewers will perceive it that way. This film's plot summary; a background musical score artist(Justice Smith) and his girlfriend Peppa(Sydney Sweeny), a trainee ophthalmologist at elliptique, move into their dream apartment in Montreal. Read More...
