Spider-Man: Across the Closet with Miles Morales and Gwen Stacy
The film's storylines read as allegories for the queer experience and that's a source of solace for LGBTQIA+ fans!

The film's storylines read as allegories for the queer experience and that's a source of solace for LGBTQIA+ fans!
What starts off as a success story for a single mother living below the poverty line, slowly begins to weave itself into a tangled web of greed, guilt, and destruction.
I'm bad, and that's good. I will never be good, and that's not bad. There's no one I'd rather be than me.
I was able to sit down and talk with the director of the short film Dog Lover Anne-Sophie Bine as she discussed and how she came to be in film.
Suppressed intergenerational family trauma and healing, warm welcome to the Marvel Cinematic Universe team, and Awkwafina's humor really make this film the real MVP.
The plot could’ve really been interesting if the elements of lycanthropy was integrated with perhaps the struggle of identity of being LGBTQ+. It's an experience for so many that as they’re starting to realizing their true selves, they feel like a monster, especially if they come from unsupportive homes or communities. Instead, the horror and transformation elements seem thrown in without contemplation of how this could deepen the narrative.