Sunshine Review

With the outbreak of the coronavirus in 2020 and the resulting stay at home order, life screeched to a stop for many people around the globe. Amid this chaos, Tomorrow X Together released their album, Minisode 1: Blue Hour. “We Lost the Summer” is a song on the album about the pandemic and everything that was halted during quarantine. Two years later, in the summer of 2022, the group finally held their first world tour, which was delayed along with so many other events. “Our Lost Summer”, a new documentary on Disney+, records this meaningful time.      Viewers will enjoy the aesthetics of the documentary. Those who’ve been following TXT for a while might recognize editing styles from “One Dream”, the group’s reality show filmed during their first showcase in the U.S. in 2019, as well as from the Minisode 1 album. The parallels to “One Dream” serve as a throwback to TXT’s rookie days, comparing the showcase and the world tour as two different beginnings for the group and t...

  It's the afternoon of July 21, 2023, and theaters are packed with people wearing various shades of pink. On this historic day, they're all coming to see the Barbie movie. This isn't Barbie and the Diamond Castle or Barbie: A Fashion Fairytale, but The Barbie movie, starring Margot Robbie as Barbie and Ryan Gosling as Ken. This movie has been getting hype since it was first announced, and for good reason. Barbie is a classic character; for better or for worse, she's an irreplaceable part of many girls' childhoods.  The movie opens with an archaic looking scene of little girls playing with dolls, and then a gigantic Barbie appears and they start smashing the baby dolls while the narrator describes how Barbie dolls could be more than just babies, and kids playing with them could be more than just parents. This brings it back to the Barbie tagline: "You can be anything," and it seems as if Barbie has solved all of society's problems. Of course, this is o...