'Venom: Let There Be Carnage' Is a Gay Love Story and I'm Here for It
Yeah, sure, the movie’s about Carnage. But it’s really about love. A love that defies all odds: the love between a man and his man-eating alien symbiote.

One rainy day, London-based artist and musician Jesse Kanda observes his father Kasuhisa make a big block of homemade I tofu. Son helps strain seawater, Father slices the curd with deliberation. Newly fermented, a smaller block of tofu is mixed with shoyu, ginger, green onion, and nori. Dirt on feet and body, on a hammock, lying on a bed inside a fanned room: two people from two generations and cultural upbringings, and their two different aftercares.
Yeah, sure, the movie’s about Carnage. But it’s really about love. A love that defies all odds: the love between a man and his man-eating alien symbiote.
Overall, Altered Carbon: Resleeved is pretty “meh.” It’s cool and all that it takes a different approach from the TV show to make it animated rather than live action, but it doesn’t help that the animation looks like something from a video game.
2025 has just about wrapped, so we’re taking this time to celebrate the most inclusive films that came out this year. Graded on Gender, Race, LGBTQ, Disability, and more
Greta Garbo, a queer actress playing a real-life queer Queen is the best of both worlds.
This coming-of-age movie discusses immigration issues in the United States through the eyes of two exchange students in Brazil.
Darren Aronofsky’s Caught Stealing is a gritty, darkly funny thrill ride through 1998 New York, with Austin Butler delivering a raw, magnetic turn as Hank Thompson—a washed-up ex-ballplayer turned bartender whose life implodes after cat-sitting for his punk neighbor drags him into a violent underworld of gangsters, crooked cops, and chaos. Brutal yet unexpectedly hilarious, the film blends noir grit with midnight-movie absurdity, proving Aronofsky can reinvent himself while Butler cements his status as a true movie star.