'Life & Beth' and 'Sort Of' - Two New Series Bravely Lose The Labels
J Brooke, Incluvie Guest Columnist on 'Life and Beth' and 'Sort of': while living one’s truth is freedom, speaking it as a mandatory assignment can become captivity.

This short film is a sexual fantasy and romantic fiction, where John becomes voyeur of a cruising moment, which grows into a fantasy erotic quintet trip. Like a juicy acid lemon taste that turns their sexual drive on. John is going out from the factory suddenly a strange sensation of unbreathing drive takes him. He arrives in a hidden street where he can watch Cliff cruising here. Attracted by Cliff he starts to observe him behind the wall.
J Brooke, Incluvie Guest Columnist on 'Life and Beth' and 'Sort of': while living one’s truth is freedom, speaking it as a mandatory assignment can become captivity.
'Blonde' commits a relentless assault on the autonomy of Marilyn Monroe, reducing the icon to nothing more than a victim of the director's whims.
The newest in a long line of Cinderella adaptations, Amazon’s Cinderella (2021) prizes girlbossification above the very story it tries to adapt.
For the entirety of Raiders of the Lost Ark, Marion remains in full control of both her body and her personality, a rarity for female characters at the time of the film’s release. She’s granted depth with personal demons from her past and emotional vulnerability when the situation deems it appropriate for her to grow alongside Indy. She avidly rejects the notion of being anything other than a sassy, humane rebel, and Indy’s equal in every way. This she does while still maintaining her femininity.
This short film was an overall creative success.
"His Girl Friday" set the bar for romcoms and gave us a feminist heroine before feminism was cool.