Pop Culture
Pop Culture · 19. August 2022
Kya Clark aka the marsh girl leaves nature-bound isolation to enter theatres (spoiler free) In her bestselling novel Delia Owens spins a beautifully poetic tale of a girl abandoned by her family, growing up alone but not lonely, for nature is her constant companion. She learns to survive on her own, while coping with her status as social outcast, studying the wilderness and creatures around her and falling in love. Until a boy dies and the ´marsh girl´ is accused of murder. Now actress and...
Pop Culture · 10. Juli 2022
29 years after Hammond initially opened the gates to his ethically questionable theme-park, Spielberg´s celebrated dinosaur science-fiction saga reaches its grand finale (spoilers) So far, we have seen the giant reptiles run free on the territory of the original park grounds, then again in the first of the new movies on the same island but under different management and lastly the amusement park setting was replaced by a mysterious mansion serving as a secret dino-auction venue. For the big...
Pop Culture · 07. Mai 2022
What seems like a silly Sandra Bullock-in-the-jungle chick-flick on the surface is a smartly packaged nod to feminism (spoilers) Lack most of the jokes wit and are there a few cheesy lines slid in along the way? Yes. But, does it give off some Legally Blonde meets Indiana Jones vibes? That it does. Sandra Bullock plays Loretta Sage, a romance writer and widow, who would rather publish stories about ancient civilizations and the effects of colonialism instead of the popular but trashy series on...
Pop Culture · 02. Mai 2022
A good movie or tv show can make nearly anything seem interesting. From board games to math, postal work or palaeontology. With the right music and a gripping story line even accounting might sound fun – wait, isn´t there something called The Accountant? This kind of cinematic glorification is created by portraying a specific topic from its most favourable and dramatic angle, letting it function as crucial plot element and building an emotional connection to the viewer through a particularly...
Pop Culture · 25. April 2022
In the current peak time of streaming services, we are constantly surrounded by an abundance of new releases and season after season of internationally hyped-up binging material. So, it´s no wonder that there are a few gems in the television treasure box that easily get overshadowed by all the other big sparkly stuff. Despite the rapidly increasing quantity of entertainment options, good writing is still not a naturally given component. But the following underrated shows definitely get it...