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The 2023 Vietnamese film Black Rose is quite an animal. Not that it has a great wild beauty about it or that it has horns on its head that make it special, but that it has the head of a lion but the bust of a penguin. That has its own kind of allure, it seems. People want to watch such animals, at least for a while, because they want to decipher how they were put together. So how was Black Rose put together? It is clear from the first frame that the idea must have popped up in the maker’s mind to create a swashbuckling revenge thriller that isn’t short on adult scenes. I will have to admit that the exposition is quite gripping, and the lion takes a leap only to be failed by the slow penguin, by which I mean that the exposition is let down by things to come.
- 2/25/2024
- by Ayush Awasthi
- Film Fugitives
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Hip-hop heiress Coi Leray had a crossover moment with “Players,” a boastful track that uses the synth arpeggios that streaked across the pioneering Grandmaster Flash cut “The Message” to flip the script 2023-style: “Girls is players too,” Leray declares amidst boasts about her womanly prowess and warnings to any prospective suitors whose bank accounts might not be up to snuff. Leray’s posturing and the immediately identifiable sample helped propel “Players” to the top ten of the Hot 100.
On her second album, she front-loads the proceedings with tweaks to the...
On her second album, she front-loads the proceedings with tweaks to the...
- 6/27/2023
- by Maura Johnston
- Rollingstone.com
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