“The situations that bring Ana, the disoriented heroine of writer-director Karen Cinorre’s Mayday, to the movie’s remote, windswept island are as disturbing as they are integral to the movie’s message of survival. After losing herself in a storm of the world’s brutality, Ana comes to on a seemingly deserted island, unsure of what’s happened, and fuzzy on the details about her past.” Read more at Gizmodo. Actress Charisma Carpenter, who played Cordelia in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel, released a statement about Joss Whedon’s alleged abusive behavior on the set of those shows. Read more at The Mary Sue. Netflix’s new Korean space opera movie Space Sweepers is the science fiction film we didn’t know we need in 2021. “Right from its first, electrifying sequence involving a bunch of bounty hunting spaceships chasing after a careering piece of garbage, Space Sweepers is fantastic fun and spins a far-future of multicultural, multilingual human life in space that’s as exhilarating as it is crushingly dystopian.” Read more at Thrillist. A lawyer in Texas’s hilarious kitten filter incident during a live court session over Zoom is going viral. Read more at PCMag. From It Happened One Night to The Big Sick, here are 20 of the best romantic movies of all time to check out this Valentine’s Day. “Every Valentine’s Day, the ‘I hate rom-coms’ crowd comes out, decrying the subgenre as either a homogenous mass of the same tired tropes or as an elaborate fantasy with no bearing on ‘real’ relationships. While it’s certainly possible to dislike most rom-coms, we’d argue that almost everyone can find at least one romantic comedy that resonates with them.” Read more at Mental Floss. Got burning questions about Marvel’s upcoming Eternals movie? Our friends at Inverse have some answers. Read more at Inverse.
