Quarantined with ‘The Platform’ a Horror/Thriller that Somewhat Parallels the Pandemic
It’s dark, uncomfortable, and there are things that don’t make sense.

Compilation of short films exploring female desire. Films include South African revenge drama, Lost in the World, the heartbreaking Cambodian short Two Girls Against the Rain, Belgian coming-of-age story Shimi, British director James Cook's Almost Obsolete and two films from the USA (Stevie, Blood & Water).
It’s dark, uncomfortable, and there are things that don’t make sense.
April, a professional dancer, reluctantly trains a group of girls at a dance school for the dance competition.
Shadow & Bone excels in natural story representation with powerful centering of culture. Jessie Mei Li stars as Alina Starkov, the feisty cartographer with kindness, innocence, and integrity, who comes to be revealed as the legendary summoner of light.
Every movement becomes a question of identity. To become who we are meant to be. In order to reach that we often have to shed who we once were, and that shedding can sometimes be so brutal it’s ungraceful.
Han's turn to villainy in 'Frozen' was foreshadowed cleverly in the story.
Desi’s “straight man” to Lucy’s playful exuberance subverted people’s expectations of what a Latino man could be and added respect and nuance to the way onscreen marriages between men and women were portrayed.