Jordan Peele is an anime nerd! During the film’s climax, Em Haywood (Keke Palmer) pulls off a motorcycle slide in the California desert, mirroring the iconic Akira slide from the 1988 film Akira...Read More
Something that immediately grasped my attention when looking for themes in the film NOPE was the theme of marginalization. The film opened pretty early on with a setting of OJ and his sister Emerald H...Read More
While watching Jordan Peeles hit film NOPE I was intrigued from the start. It seemed that there were so many underlying meanings that had yet to be unveiled and I was on the edge of my seat waiting to...Read More
What is the significance of Gordy? “Jordan Peele On Nope’s Gordy Sequence: ‘It’s About Feelings Of Rage’ – Exclusive.” Empire, 30 Aug. 2022, https://www.empireonline.com/movies/news/jord...Read More
I always love Jordan Peele’s work. From Us to Get Out to NOPE, his skill and ability to create fantastical storylines while seamlessly sewing in serious and important themes has made him easily ...Read More
Just when I thought Singin’ in the Rain was commentary on moviemaking, I watched NOPE: a patchwork quilt of genres. Sci-fi, horror, western, thriller, comedy—without Emerald Haywood’s (Keke Palm...Read More
Jordan Peele’s Nope, unlike many films does not even come close to confining itself simply to one genre. Not only is there strong elements of horror and western, the sub-genre of comedy and sci-...Read More
Jordan Peele’s Nope (2022) is a film that melds together a lot of interesting ideas about race, entertainment, and science fiction told in the lens of a thriller Western, the cinematic equivalent to...Read More