“Michael” and the Tension of Lacking Tension
It is not hard to make a musical biopic that pleases audiences and draws a profit. Michael is no exception.

In a bourgeois, intellectual, and elitist Paris, three sisters who couldn't be more different are going through a period of doubt and self-reflection. The eldest is caught up in a torrid affair with a female painter. The middle one is bored with her introverted computer scientist partner. The youngest is emerging from the grief of losing her fiancé. It's autumn, Christmas is approaching, and each of them longs to change everything in her life.
It is not hard to make a musical biopic that pleases audiences and draws a profit. Michael is no exception.
Is God Is tells a harrowing tale of retribution, sisterhood, and gender based violence. Far too eerie and clever to be an ordinary slasher, but too gory and merciless to be an ordinary thriller, Is God Is will appeal to the highbrow horror lover with generational trauma anywhere.
When we hear Korean Cinema, we often think of South Korean Cinema, but what about North Korea? Sure, North Korea has its propaganda moments, but 'Pulgasari' might be its best one yet.
Mahershala Ali and Naomie Harris, with an economy of language, but a world of expression, weave us inside this futuristic tale of how your “one true love” may exist in the future in Benjamin Cleary's 'Swan Song.'
'Easy A' is emblematic of a world that liked to sarcastically pretend it was progressive but wasn’t actually ready for that change, making it pretty anti-sex.
Not only does the system prevent upward mobility, but it makes it incredibly easy to slide from comfortably middle class to unhoused.