Horrorathon, Volume Two (2020)

This animated movie is based on the migration of birds from the north to the south.

When the world lost Chadwick Boseman on August 28, 2020, we all saw the impact of representation in film. Boseman was not only a Black superhero leading a Black cast in one of the most successful films in history; but his successes paved the way for more, long-overdue diversity in Hollywood.

The external threat invaded the domestic environment at the most valuable moment: grieving.

This 2024 musical film is based on the Broadway show and the 2004 film of the same name with major differences.

The human experience is described through the eyes of a marginalized outsider, neither judgmental nor invested, just an observant donkey.

I came across Urchin by chance and decided to watch it because of the title. It made me think of the spiky animal that lives at the bottom of the ocean, and the old Dickensian novels, where an urchin was an orphaned, homeless child in shaggy and dirty clothes.