Dead by Dawn (1998)

This 2024 musical film is based on the Broadway show and the 2004 film of the same name with major differences.

One of THE most frustrating trends in the mainstream film industry over the last several decades has been the onset of comedy efforts that seem SO focused on being crude and/or gross-out in all ways possible. That, at least for me, makes them no longer funny.

What seems like such a simple story of survival is so much more than that—it’s a story of family, and of war, and of destruction. It’s painful to watch, but not in a bad way. It makes its audience reflect on their own actions, and in how they are complicit in the sufferings of others as the adults in this film are. Grave of the Fireflies does not hold back from being heartbreaking, and it shouldn’t. It tells a message that needs to be heard decades after the war, and a story that cannot be forgotten by history.

Han's turn to villainy in 'Frozen' was foreshadowed cleverly in the story.

I'm bad, and that's good. I will never be good, and that's not bad. There's no one I'd rather be than me.