"Queen & Slim" Needs a Trim
Queen & Slim is a nice example of representation in both cast and crew

Where do memories go when they decide to leave us? Where do dreams go when we forget them? Where does love go when it ends?
Queen & Slim is a nice example of representation in both cast and crew
Kate Winslet and Saorise Ronan deliver stellar performances in a film that doesn't live up to its potential.
A South Korean romantic drama film that brings a strong first love story.
It only seems to prove that when the company had their backs against the wall and needed an all pleasing, generic movie that had to make up for The Last Jedi, they chose to sacrifice almost everything that made their main protagonist interesting and that made her stand out as the strong female character that a generation of young movie goers was supposed to look up to. Instead, we were left with a Rey that was so much less than she could have been. And I guess that’s the real story of Rey and The Rise of Skywalker; they could have been so much more, but they were just more of the same.
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.