'American Fiction' Speaks Truth
American Fiction is a genuinely entertaining film with a few lessons.

Fantasy bleeds into reality when 16-year-old Lolo becomes entangled in a Freudian loop centered around a strawberry shortcake and her mother, Norma. As Lolo sinks deeper into this surreal loop, the boundary between reality and the dreamscape becomes increasingly blurred.
American Fiction is a genuinely entertaining film with a few lessons.
There is a lot of controversy around Q-force. It’s certainly not hard to see why—the series is quite hyperbolic. I will say, that was the first aspect I noticed on my initial watch. Right from the get-go Q-Force barrages you with gay joke after gay joke. This is hit or miss throughout the series.
Gritty and bleak are the best words to describe this film. There’s nothing happy about it.
This groundbreaking summer blockbuster proves that diversity enhances the action genre.
The “gay best friend”, an age-old trope, has been done in countless films and television series. Ranging from one-note (Sex and the City's Stanford and Mario) to nuanced (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt's Tituss), the gay best friend exists to support and advise the main protagonist, with their conflicts swept to the side.
"Driveways" is a nuanced portrait of an Asian American family, touching on themes of loss, growth, and belonging.