The Enduring Beauty of “Persepolis”
This powerful story shines with poetic animation, an exploration of deeper truths, and the protagonist's complex search for identity.

The film made by two brothers, one a screenwriter and the other a director, was a failure. On the very day of the premiere, they were severely beaten by their sponsors, who had run out of money, and thrown out into the street at midnight. Wandering the streets of the city, the brothers walked towards their homes, passing by a nightclub. Suddenly, as if by fate, a girl who was beaten like them came out of the nightclub. They saw this girl as a muse for their next activities and brought her home. Early in the morning, they began to write and create a new script with the girl, as if they were opening a new page in their lives. The point is that they themselves become the heroes of the events that take place in the script, which they named "OL".
This powerful story shines with poetic animation, an exploration of deeper truths, and the protagonist's complex search for identity.
I am shocked and upset to report that the movie about a female car mechanic who meets the love of her life online featuring Katy O’Brien does not, in fact, have a lesbian storyline.
"WHAT ARE YOU WILLING TO SACRIFICE?!!!!" "EVERYTHING!!!!!" This is but one of a multitude of highly emphatic questions, and subsequent answers, being asked in the newest feature film from one of the current masters of horror, Jordan Peele ("Get Out", "Us" and "Nope"). I must give Peele credit in that he continues to push the boundaries of specific genres and their associated tropes in order to provide what ends up amounting to subtly then jarringly intense, yet still character and story-driven, cinema that speaks more to indie stylings than mainstream.
Tom Clancy's Without Remorse has everything a movie director from the 80’s could wish.
From its visually stunning opening credits, which show women dancing through a forest to musical rhythms that sound almost primal, to its quiet, heartbreaking final frame, Mona Fastvold’s historical rendering of the Shaker religious movement is an experience that will stay with me for a long time.
After two months of refusing to see this movie, I have decided that it’s finally Morbin’ time. After its re-release as a box office bomb; I watched it just to laugh at it. But, I was also surprised, because 'Morbius' is a queer allegory.