POSTED BY Caroline Cao

Set in the cruelty of the apartheid era of South Africa, APART tells a tale about innocence shattered between star-crossed friends. In belated Tribeca Festival reviews, I look into the animated short APART, directed by Pola Maneli. The short shares many…

Yet another Avatar story has struck the world. Nope, it’s not James Cameron‘s Avatar. Nope, it’s not Netflix’s season 2 of its live-action Avatar: The Last Airbender. It’s Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender as made by the original creators, Michael…

When viewing the adult animated Hayop Ka! screener for Fantasia Festival, I encountered an unusual caveat. The Fantasia Festival screener didn’t bear English subtitles, although the spurts of English coexisting bilingualistically with Tagalog aided this English speaker. I resorted to my…

Fantasia International Film Festival is back in season! And it’s fruitful with highly anticipated titles like the buzzy Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma. DivaGalsDaily writer Caroline Cao takes a look at the selection she’s looking forward to. Her fixation…

Does the sophomore season live-action remake of a classic kids’ cartoon rescue itself? It’s easy to understate the spell that Avatar: The Last Airbender, running on Nickelodeon from 2005 to 2008, had on the animation industry and its acolytes. It…

In 1984, Sharbat Gula‘s photograph became an object of international fascination and the Western gaze. But the photo did not translate into her safety and prosperity. Gula’s photograph gets a shout-out as “Nat Geo Afghan Girl” by a snooty white…

In the new psychological horror thriller, Rachel McAdams finally teaches her misogynistic boss a lesson with Survivor instincts. If you have seen the marketing trailers, Send Help—the screenplay by Damian Shannon and Mark Swift (both writers of Freddy vs. Jason)—will…

I guess I have been submerged in the middle when it came to James Cameron’s Avatar film series. It’s the world of Pandora, the planet inhabited by the blue fictional Na’vi humanoid people who can commune with their planet’s ecosystem…

There’s a counterintuitive earnestness to the James L. Brooks’ direction of his latest stagey dramedy, Ella McCay. While Brooks’ screenplay bears vintage traits of ’90s comedies, it barely has the steam in today’s political climate. Ella McCay (Emma Mackey) is…

I would rather stare at an empty paper plate with pizza grease than watch Five Nights at Freddy’s 2. There’s not enough comic and horror to chew on for my taste, and I find it doubtful for even fans of…