Straight Actors Playing Queer Characters: This is Exhausting
It’s 2021 and what few LGBTQ+ films that are produced by major film studios continue to star cisgender heterosexual actors, rather than actual LGBTQ+ people.

Tino Casal was a singer and artist, but also a producer, leather craftsman and friend of his friends. This documentary dives, through numerous characters, into the figure of the Spanish pop singer of the 80s, who died in a traffic accident at the age of 41. His innovative artistic facet, psychedelia, his struggle, success, decadence... Finally, secrets that have been kept under lock and key until now are revealed and that have broken the schemes of those who thought they knew the great divo.
It’s 2021 and what few LGBTQ+ films that are produced by major film studios continue to star cisgender heterosexual actors, rather than actual LGBTQ+ people.
It’s no wonder Peele won an academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. His script is layered with perspective and subtlety. Through a terrific vision, Peele creates the gift that keeps on giving. The clues and symbolic representations are aplenty, and as each viewing passes, you are destined to find something new. That’s a mark of great cinema.
Moonlight is a film that will certainly be remembered for how it won Best Picture, but the movie itself should be known for its excellent representation of one of the most underrepresented groups in film: Black, gay men.
This Japanese Anime movie is about Kanna, a young girl who sets on a quest across Japan to discover her true identity.
Writing great villains is about striking a balance between charming and evil, so we love them but also love to see them lose.
What are we willing to walk through to see our dreams come to pass? Our minds might be so wholly alive with the passions we carry and the plans we make to see these things become all we wish them to be, yet life doesn’t always want to come alongside. Instead, obstacles arise, both physical and mental, which attempt to dissuade us or even prevent us from moving forward, stalling or stagnating the momentum to achieve what we desire. The age-old question remains….can we overcome? Or will we BE overcome?