'Slanted': If You Can't Beat Them, Be Them
A dynamic journey of self-acceptance and identity.

Lindsey, a modern teen without a date for homecoming, stays home to watch an eighties slasher movie about Diana, a girl fleeing a killer who massacred her friends. When the power goes out, the movie’s killer enters the real world, forcing Lindsey and Diana to either work together to survive or decide who will be the “final girl” left standing.
A dynamic journey of self-acceptance and identity.
Disney has kept its word and allowed a new generation of Black and/or African storytellers to tell their own original stories. The question remains, will the public keep their word?
Rules are nowhere to be seen in the harsh unfiltered reality of ‘Fair Play.’
"WHAT ARE YOU WILLING TO SACRIFICE?!!!!" "EVERYTHING!!!!!" This is but one of a multitude of highly emphatic questions, and subsequent answers, being asked in the newest feature film from one of the current masters of horror, Jordan Peele ("Get Out", "Us" and "Nope"). I must give Peele credit in that he continues to push the boundaries of specific genres and their associated tropes in order to provide what ends up amounting to subtly then jarringly intense, yet still character and story-driven, cinema that speaks more to indie stylings than mainstream.
Films can alleviate alienation by presenting realities where the viewers feelings are shared by onscreen characters. 'The Little Mermaid" film can be interpreted as a transgender story.
While not everyone may relate to the circumstances Danielle finds herself in in 'Shiva Baby', some are sure to understand her struggles as she is scrutinized for being a woman, a college student, an LGBT person, and a sugar baby.