A K-Pop artist meets a local girl in Bali. Problems arise when they started to be in love with one another.
Kung Fu Chit was a beautifully made, empowering short film that really spoke to me. Featured in Incluvie’s 2020 Film Festival, Kung Fu Chit tells the story of a girl who doesn’t quite fit in.
Intergenerational friendships and community can be so powerful, and this was a great example.
Telling a story about the French and Indian Wars from the perspective of the British prioritizes the perspective of the colonizers.
Perhaps the most amazing and groundbreaking quality about The Birdcage is how removed it is from both illness and insensitivity. Whereas films preceding it were often somber stories about the tribulations of being gay in a conservatively straight world, Nichols and screenwriter Elaine May expose the fallacies of conservatism as traditional values are thrown into a more open-minded space. They don’t care how far the community has fallen so much as how high they can rebuild themselves.
Red, White and Royal Blue still does not have an official release date. However, the cast has been sharing pictures of their filming.
Despite the film’s efforts to reframe its heroine with modern complexity, a certain emotional distance lingers.
