'Life & Beth' and 'Sort Of' - Two New Series Bravely Lose The Labels
J Brooke, Incluvie Guest Columnist on 'Life and Beth' and 'Sort of': while living one’s truth is freedom, speaking it as a mandatory assignment can become captivity.

Jilet Ömer sets out on what he imagines will be a straightforward quest for love, until he meets the enchanting Leyla. Things take a wild turn when Mine pops into the picture, turning his romantic pursuit into a full-blown juggling act. As if that weren’t enough, a colorful crew of characters (Yırtık Bayram, Mualla, Rıfkı, Şakir Üfürür, Uşak Hasan, Madam, and Naciye) start crashing the scene. Each one adds their own layer of mix-ups, mistaken identities, and unpredictable surprises, so that what began as a simple love story quickly spirals into a hilarious maze of overlapping romances and comic misadventures.
J Brooke, Incluvie Guest Columnist on 'Life and Beth' and 'Sort of': while living one’s truth is freedom, speaking it as a mandatory assignment can become captivity.
Honey Don't! is a chaotic queer noir that's part detective story, part midnight movie madness. Margaret Qualley is fantastic as the wise-cracking private eye Honey, with Aubrey Plaza and Chris Evans adding their own dry humor to the mix. The mystery itself is pretty loose, but the film makes up for it with crackling sexual tension, weird side characters, and razor-sharp dialogue. It's messy and uneven, but in the best possible way.
The final installment in the rebooted X-Men franchise.
A sweet slice-of-life anime that visualizes all the ways we creatively hide our vulnerabilities from the world.
This is ambitious horror filmmaking, and in a lot of ways, I fully admire its ambitions. For me, the film’s sloppiness defines its overall quality.
Meander, released in 2021, is a French gory horror film featuring a woman trapped in small spaces as she fights for her life, paralleling real pandemic life.