Straight Actors Playing Queer Characters 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.

An educational drama about teens and substance misuse, over-the-counter overdosing and cannabis: urging discussion of the pressures behind “self-medication.”
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.
If “Good Time” was a lean exercise in suspense, “Uncut Gems” is an ongoing panic attack. It handcuffs us to an immoral man, made up of selfishness and unreliability. At every point, Adam Sandler connects himself to this idiotic soul, unearthing the misguided opportunism that comes with gambling addiction
"Godzilla vs. Kong" is all style and very little substance. It's also the most fun I've had in months.
Can a piece of bad representation truly be reclaimed? We Are Pat (2025) attempts to answer this question.
Ever since the mid-’90s, the Mortal Kombat game franchise has seen multiple attempts to make it on the big screen, or at least adapted into other media.
An attempt to capture nostalgia that unfortunately just doesn’t work