Challengers—Blurring the Lines of Platonic and Romantic Love
What happens to an inseparable bond when love for competing morphs into competing for love?

Lina, a popular social media influencer, begins to feel pressured as she gets older, yet remains unmarried, especially as her mother constantly nags her about finding a match. On her journey back to her hometown, her car breaks down and gets stranded in Kampung Damai before being helped by Pak Samad. There, Lina meets Amir, Pak Samad's son who is an active and dedicated entrepreneur. During her stay in Kampung Damai, Lina also joins the villagers in making various preparations for the Independence Day celebration, while simultaneously opening a new chapter that changes her perspective on life, family, and love.
What happens to an inseparable bond when love for competing morphs into competing for love?
With mismatched eyes, a willingness to experiment with hair color and style, and a rail thin frame, Bowie always drew attention. But he shunned gendered attractiveness, creating his own space somewhere in between. This hallucinatory and often nonlinear 2022 documentary is a perfect salute to David Bowie’s life and career. Rather than interviewing those that knew Bowie, the standard convention for biographical portraits, director Brett Morgen mostly lets the artist’s images, performances, videos, and words speak to capture the essence of the artist. Bowie was more than just a pop star. He painted, sculpted, acted in films, and was a thoughtful and articulate person who gave sincere answers to even the most shallow interview questions.
We have a long way to go with LGBT representation in film, especially when it comes to LGBT characters of color and trans characters.
We got a movie that takes the old school approach of trying to creep you out with chilling atmosphere more than anything else.
Hope has great characters, inventive ideas, an incredible imagination, a palpable intensity, and numerous other aspects that make it one of the best of the year.