Powerbomb (2020)

This Japanese Anime movie is about Kanna, a young girl who sets on a quest across Japan to discover her true identity.

Being made after the death of Chadwick Boseman will be a hard but exciting ride for this Marvel entry.

The beating heart of this film is the relationship between Anna Osborne and Sonya Rockhouse.

True crime media is notoriously obsessed with the “missing white woman” trope, and yet the vast majority of American murder victims are male, and well over half are people of color.

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.

The film does not add anything to its own conversation or genre, and falls flat once it’s about to end and must declare some sort of conclusion.