After a devastating injury derails his baseball career, a former star player returns to his family's empty Florida home, seeking recovery but instead confronting his deepest fears - both physical and supernatural - when he encounters a mysterious woman whose secrets blur the line between desire and danger.
The Invitation takes a creeping look at two simple premises: reuniting with forgotten friends and new-age spiritualism. Though one seems a bit scarier than the other, the film heightens social awkwardness to a macabre level that puts an uncomfortable look on when the social taboo of grief is put on public display.
The beating heart of this film is the relationship between Anna Osborne and Sonya Rockhouse.
“There’s always something you can do…to make people feel like they’re welcome”
The film's storylines read as allegories for the queer experience and that's a source of solace for LGBTQIA+ fans!
Lee Daniels’s Billie Holiday biopic The United States vs. Billie Holiday was released on February 26th, 2021, and my immediate reaction to it was one of discomfort.
Movies also have the ability to make the audience think deeper about an issue that plagues society. "Blindspotting" does that without shying away from the intense reality of police brutality and racial discrimination.
