President Kateřina Čechová, exhausted by the pressures of her first year in office, secretly dons a disguise to slip out of the castle at night and mingle among ordinary citizens. She meets and falls for sculptor Petr, unaware of her true identity, but when her nightly escapades are exposed, she must navigate the fallout and fight for her right to a personal life and love despite her public role.
The “gay best friend”, an age-old trope, has been done in countless films and television series. Ranging from one-note (Sex and the City's Stanford and Mario) to nuanced (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt's Tituss), the gay best friend exists to support and advise the main protagonist, with their conflicts swept to the side.
Amanda Riley gets the opportunity to travel to Vietnam for the experience of a lifetime.
A 2020 Japanese anime movie that focuses on a high school girl who is desperately in love with her secret crush.
As this critic continues to look back at some of this Summer's films I have taken in, I would be remiss if I didn't mention one of the most overall unsettling trends in Hollywood over the last several years.....sequels, reboots, and remakes. Look, I am all for seeing more than one film for certain originals that made a splash, ie: "Jurassic Park", "Pirates of the Caribbean", "Transformers", etc.
The message to take away from 'Causeway' is that toxic masculinity can manifest in anyone, no matter what their gender identity is.
Desi Arnaz was an innovator in television and Lucille Ball was a sketch comedy clairvoyant of sorts; 'Being the Ricardos' focuses on their genius as a couple, but shies away from the interracial aspect of their marriage.
