Queer Friendship is Complicated in "Lakeview" (2024)
Tara Thorne’s film is equal parts emotional and comedic, illustrating the beauty and the pain of long term relationships.

Ichiro and Jiro, brothers who made a name for themselves in the yakuza world, have now left that life behind, but are being targeted by their former enemies and are hiding in the apartment of their widowed landlady, Kyoko. One day, the brothers find a young woman lying unconscious on the beach. As they begin to play a prank on her...
Tara Thorne’s film is equal parts emotional and comedic, illustrating the beauty and the pain of long term relationships.
The new biopic 'Elvis' highlights the beginning and end of the career of this rock and roll legend. The audience is taken on this journey knowing the tragic ending but not so much about what led him there. A large topic of discussion is the influences on Elvis that made him who he was as a singer, musician, and performer, which were blues, gospel, and country. Many of the songs that rose him to fame were songs by Black artists he heard growing up in primarily Black settings.
The Outer Senshi get characterization and some stellar moments in the second part of the Eternal movie duo.
'Playing with Fire' was clearly a film made for a kid or tween-ish audience. Keeping that in mind, I thought 'Playing with Fire' was alright, though it did portray some harmful stereotypes.
The final installment in the rebooted X-Men franchise.
When a US Army veteran returns home traumatized, he begins another battle with addiction.