Inspired by Lee Edelman’s “No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive” and Feminist, Queer, Crip author, Alison Kafer’s rebuttal of Edelman’s “F*ck The Future” – this hybrid speculative fiction and personal film nonlinearly moves across past, present, and future timelines. Refusing to erase the disabled body in either timeline, the film instead insists upon making illness visible and posing questions regarding grief, loss, and Queer/Crip time.
The film's Incluvie rating is off the charts. It features Black, Muslim, queer, trans humans whose moms hold them up, fight for them, and love them for who they are...making anything possible.
“Reboot” can be crass and has much room to improve, but with investments of time and care, could flower out of the seed of a vision.
With The Father, writer-director Florian Zeller- who wrote and developed the play upon which the film is based- pulls no punches as he confidently makes every effort to put the audience in the mind of someone whose grip on reality has all but vanished. It’s a dazzling testament to Zeller’s abilities as a director as he makes his first transition from stage to film appear as if he’s been working behind a camera his entire career. The dialogue he fashions with co-writer Christopher Hampton, along with the work of production designers Peter Francis and Cathy Featherstone, collectively makes the downward spiral of dementia startlingly tangible, doing so in a way that can be comprehended by everyone except the person it directly affects.
With raw and unapologetic performances by Viola Davis and Chadwick Boseman, stories about the hardships of Black musicians are weaved in with The Blues.
A bumpy journey about revolution and family makes us feel fear, disgust, humor, and satisfaction.
"Warrior" is a Bruce Lee written and inspired story that follows a diverse cast of Chinese American characters and does a terrific job of setting the story in 1878 San Francisco - all without pulling their punches with the systemic racism, discrimination, and struggle for power that old and young immigrants that crossed the country at that time had to go through.
