Agalmatophilia 

Despite the film’s efforts to reframe its heroine with modern complexity, a certain emotional distance lingers.

In My Octopus Teacher, documentary filmmaker Craig Foster models healthy masculinity by showing us a trusting, gentle, and emotionally fulfilling bond with an octopus.

After the untimely death of his brother by way of an ambush in Kandahar, Afghanistan, the protagonist, ‘81’(Alan Ritchson) unsuccessfully makes several attempts to become an Army Ranger. On his last mission to complete the Ranger selection process he and his squad encounter an otherworldly ‘soldier’.

Based on the best-selling novel by Angie Thomas and a maxim of the late Tupac Shakur.

This animated Christmas movie is based on the classic novel of the same name.