Yamano, a salaryman, is diagnosed with cancer—a revelation that sparks an argument with his wife, Ikuko. During the altercation, he accidentally shoves her; she hits her head and loses consciousness. Terrified, Yamano flees the scene. When Ikuko later regains consciousness, she has lost her memory. Meanwhile, Rina—a former idol whose popularity is waning—is being pressured by her manager, Egawa, to appear in adult videos. At a shoot, she encounters Misuzu, an idol she has long admired; after Misuzu gives her a stern pep talk, Rina runs away from the set. She ends up in a park, where she meets Yamano, who is sitting there in despair. The two share their respective troubles and eventually fall in love.
Films and TV series often tend to misrepresent or not acknowledge bisexual characters, but recent trends show that bi-erasure is now under deserved scrutiny. So, I’m genuinely happy about the direction bi-representation seems to be taking.
“Trust your gut" is one of the most common pieces of advice you’ll receive during your lifetime. And as a person inclined to trust my intuition above all else, it’s the most common advice I find myself giving in real life and in my online socialising. But what happens when your gut is trying to warn you that something is seriously wrong without you being able to identify what triggered it in the first place? How can you act on a feeling or make it go away when you don’t have a clue about what could be wrong? How can you trust your intuition when you don’t know what makes it act out in the first place?
But what many do not know is that in 2019, a Wonder Woman film was released that had all of the positive qualities of WW84, and remedied many of the negative ones. Wonder Woman: Bloodlines, a direct-to-video animated movie in the DC Animated Movie Universe, perfectly balances the campiness and seriousness of the character.
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On is the most human movie of the year. It is based on the 2010 short of the same name that follows a big-hearted, little shell named Marcel as he navigates through life in a human-sized world.
I was able to sit down and talk with the director of the short film Dog Lover Anne-Sophie Bine as she discussed and how she came to be in film.
Taika Waititi and the cast of Thor: Love and Thunder have been hyping up the gayness of this movie, and while there are queer characters, it's not quite the representation we were hoping for.
