Dylan's Deep Dives

Sinners Bites Deep Into America’s Southern History By Dylan Barbee Courtesy of @sinnersmovie on Instagram Release Date: April 18th, 2025 I had rarely heard or seen anything about Ryan Coogler and Micheal B. Jordan’s newest collaborative film Sinners before it crept into the spotlight with high praise. The marketing for the film seemed very brief, not really revealing anything about the plot which I now know was purposeful.   Sinners is a striking period piece that immerses viewers into America’s Jim Crow South, exploring the region’s cultural roots through its music. Departing from Coogler’s previous approach on films like Black Panther and Creed, this original story quickly takes a bold gothic horror twist, using vampires as a haunting metaphor on cultural assimilation and the erasure of Black heritage.   The film starts with gangster twin brothers Smoke and Stack (both played by Micheal B. Jordan) returning home to Mississippi from Chicago to open a juke joint to give back ...

How Netflix’s Adolescence Exposes the Truth Behind the Dark Reality of Youth Violence By Dylan Barbee Courtesy of IMDb Release Date: March 13th, 2025 In recent years, violence amongst the youth in the UK has become a daily occurrence with  eight in ten teen homicide victims being killed with a blade and  50,500 offenses involving a sharp instrument in the year ending in March 2024. These viciously deranged attacks traumatize victim’s families despite often being the passing headlines within the larger presentation of international news coverage. Netflix’s new critically acclaimed British streaming series Adolescence puts a scope on this growing issue, with show director Philip Barantini and writer Jack Thorne peeling back the layers of how social media is hijacking the youth in the UK - and potentially worldwide.  The show follows the Miller family, whose 13-year-old son Jamie (Owen Cooper) is arrested and interrogated for the killing of his classmate, Katie (Emilia Holli...

  Wrapping Our Heads Around Severances’ Spectacle By Dylan Barbee Courtesy of @AppleTV on Instagram Released on Jan. 17th, 2025 and ended on Mar. 21st, 2025 SPOILERS AHEAD!!! By now, you’ve likely heard of  Ben Stiller’s critically acclaimed show Severance . The mind-bending thriller has caught the attention of millions with a wave of long-form TikTok videos of fans sharing their theories about the show’s potential future plotlines, viral memes and debate produced on fan-made Reddit pages.  Its satirical message on the corporate ladder is explored through a mysterious plot that thickens in season two with addictive twists and turns deservedly giving Apple TV their most-watched show yet.  To sum up the plot, the show explores work-life balance as people undergo a brain procedure called “severance” to separate their work consciousness from their personal lives. This is done through the show’s main character Mark (Adam Scott), who is struggling to cope with the sudden ...