
A three minute campy comedy-drama short film centred around a queer character, Jesse, feeling depressed and insecure in a nightclub. Everything changes when Jesse discovers their life is a three minute student film and they have two minutes left to live. With the encouragement of their comedic and inspiring director, the character finds confidence and becomes their greatest and proudest self, dancing and living their last moments of life to the fullest.
Not only does the system prevent upward mobility, but it makes it incredibly easy to slide from comfortably middle class to unhoused.
This current year, as well as the past several, has seen a slowly building increase in something the horror genre has required for quite a while in this critic's opinion...originality. I've stated before that I am very hard to please when it comes to this vein of the film industry's offerings, always leaning more towards that which sends chills through my very being in lieu of buckets of blood and gore.
The trouble with Yara (2021) is that in its attempt to tell the whole story, it struggles to tell a consistently engaging story.
Written and directed by Rian Johnson (Looper, Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi), Knives Out was one of the most clever and intricately crafted films of 2019.
A Black woman centered in a box office rom-com with a happy ending and no struggle love.