A gay ice skating anime made me believe in love again
'Yuri!!! on Ice' turned queerbaiting on its head and gave me hope when I needed it the most.

This edge-of-your-seat suspenser pitts Sam Spencer, a Mafia fugitive on the lam, against the obstinate and difficult Captain Savienko. When Spencer hops Savienko's nuclear waste-filled vessel as a stowaway - without asking permission - it sets the stage for a violent conflict between the two hotheaded men.
'Yuri!!! on Ice' turned queerbaiting on its head and gave me hope when I needed it the most.
A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night, though its feminism may be unintentional, cannot exist without its focus on women reclaiming power. The movie is feminist by definition, even if Amirpour didn’t write it with that in mind. A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night is mesmerizing, poetic, and stunning, both for its portrayal of feminist ideas and its powerful story that is both horrific and subtly romantic at once.
'Motherless Brooklyn' is a 1950s whodunit made by its star, Edward Norton. Like most detective films in this setting, the cast is mostly white males (with a few notable exceptions).
Remakes. Reboots. Reinventions. Redundancy. It's the common practice in Hollywood of late, sometimes offering us victorious reimagining of what can be considered cinematic classics while also, more often, falling flat on their UN-imaginative faces in utter defeat and lackluster results. Admittedly, with this in mind, I went into the newest incarnation of "The War of the Roses" with typical trepidation and cautious optimism.
"Beef" is a new dark comedy with a near entire Asian-American cast
'Do Revenge' offers a 2022-relevant sociopolitical commentary that decries virtue signaling while promoting the inclusive virtues the nefarious power structures exploit.