‘The Devil All The Time’ is Gritty and Bleak
Gritty and bleak are the best words to describe this film. There’s nothing happy about it.

Gritty and bleak are the best words to describe this film. There’s nothing happy about it.
This delightfully odd horror movie presents a whimsically strange alternate reality to younger audiences.
An aspect of She-Ra that I find refreshing is even though a large portion of the cast is on the LGBTQ+ Spectrum, being gay is never mentioned. While this might initially sound like a negative thing, in the show’s land of Etheria being on the gay spectrum is shown to be so common and normalized that straight isn’t the default. As much as there is to appreciate about narratives revolving around the obstacles that may come from being non-heteronormative, it’s nice to get immersed in a world where no one bats an eye at all to any sort of differing identity.
'Tuca and Bertie' (2019) is an animated series centering around best friends of the same name as they traverse the challenges of their thirties.
"His Girl Friday" set the bar for romcoms and gave us a feminist heroine before feminism was cool.
Another story focuses on the bond between a young man and a shelter dog in this Netflix drama film.