Overwatch 2's new Season 9 update has made some significant changes to the projectile sizes of many heroes, and some fans are not happy. This is only one of the major changes introduced with Overwatch 2's newest update.
28.01.2024 - 23:56 / polygon.com / Jenna Ortega / Peter Jackson
No matter how often the argument resurfaces, we aren’t really running out of movie stars — especially not as far as fandom is concerned. There are still plenty of actors out there with devotees who eagerly track their faves from project to project. Jenna Ortega has built that kind of following, from her child-actor phase as a Disney TV stalwart to playing young Jane on Jane the Virgin, the title role in Netflix’s Wednesday, and one of the new crop of knife-fodder-to-be in the Scream reboot series. Her fans have been vocal about the excitement of seeing her take on more adult, more independent, and more ambitious roles. But they’re going to have an interesting time figuring out how to swallow her new movie, Miller’s Girl.
Anyone who felt distanced from their peers in high school and ready to move on to the adult world should find an initial spark of recognition in Jade Halley Bartlett’s writing and directing debut. Miller’s Girl stars Ortega as the improbably named Cairo Sweet, a rich trust-funder high schooler living a decadent life alone in a vast house while her parents travel. Cairo seems infinitely bored with everything but her own fulsome, over-the-top writing. She briefly finds a kindred spirit in one of her teachers, Jonathan Miller, played by Marvel Cinematic Universe/Peter Jackson’s Hobbit movies/Cornetto trilogy veteran Martin Freeman. Given how jaded they both are with everything else, and how quickly they fascinate each other, it’s no surprise that this teacher-student relationship quickly goes wrong.
What is surprising, though, is how Miller’s Girl just as quickly loses the plot, and loses everyone around Cairo in the effort to center the story on her.
A lot’s been said lately about whether movies are getting longer on average, and whether that’s a problem for anyone but theater owners who want to churn through shows faster, and the usual internet kvetchers. But where the tight 90-minute thriller (93, in this case) still has significant appeal, Miller’s Girl makes a strong argument for longer movies. In this case, it really could have used the extra run time to develop its characters.
Miller’s Girl is a small story with just a few central characters, but most of them are broad, cartoonish types reminiscent of the first season of Glee. Cairo’s best friend, Winnie (Gideon Adlon), is a flirtatious virgin who’s a nonstop fountain of come-ons and sex talk, until she suddenly flips into a completely different mode halfway through the film. Her sharp left turn is much more justified than the one Jon’s wife, Beatrice (Dagmara Dominczyk), takes: She starts out as an amiable workaholic who’s three-quarters checked out of her marriage, then abruptly becomes a lurching alcoholic whose jabs at her
Overwatch 2's new Season 9 update has made some significant changes to the projectile sizes of many heroes, and some fans are not happy. This is only one of the major changes introduced with Overwatch 2's newest update.
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Palworld is definitely one of your more adult Pokemon-esque titles. If that wasn't made clear by all the murder, rocket launchers, and machine guns, then it's made even more apparent when you actually take a look at the Paldex, the game's PokeDex equivalent that gives you a little bit of info about the Pal that you've just caught or seen.
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