Marina Fang (she/her) is a senior culture reporter at HuffPost, based in New York. She primarily covers film and television, examining their intersection with politics, race and gender, and exploring how culture reflects questions of power.
Did we need this? It’s a question I ask myself every time there’s news of another movie with a number in its title.” . All of these projects — that likely nobody asked for — were announced in the last few weeks, continuing Hollywood’s unrelenting churn of sequels, prequels, reboots, revivals, remakes, spinoffs, etc.”) and starring several of today’s most promising stars or stars on the rise, including Daisy Edgar-Jones, Anthony Ramos and leading man of the moment Glen Powell.
On a surface level, “Twisters” is a perfectly fine way to spend 2 hours in an air-conditioned movie theater during a heat wave. Yet it also left me feeling as cynical as ever about the state of Hollywood, and what happens when art comes up against commerce. “There was the giant machinery of it all. I knew that would be a learning curve for me. With ‘Minari,’ I could just craft it and perfect it. With ‘Twisters,’ I knew it’d be a lot more expansive and I’d have less control. Honestly, I felt intimidated and afraid. But then that lit a fire within me to do it, because of that reason,” Chung said. “I felt like, if I didn’t do it, I would always regret it.
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