The Betrayal 2: Revenge (2022)

Gritty and bleak are the best words to describe this film. There’s nothing happy about it.

Not every film can make a shopping mall feel both magical and menacing, but Forbidden Fruits challenges that.

'Jungle Cruise' is fun if you can ignore the racism of the ride it’s based on and the film’s bland, stereotypical characters.

Yeah, sure, the movie’s about Carnage. But it’s really about love. A love that defies all odds: the love between a man and his man-eating alien symbiote.

“And I think to myself….what a wonderful world”. Louis Armstrong sang about this notion via his classic 1967 song, an ode to witnessing elements of our life that should be but some reminders of exactly what that concluding line of each verse indicates. Now we see our contemporary realities and, just being honest, it makes a sentiment like this seem SO overtly far away….perhaps even impossible….to accept or believe could be. It sounds harsh, but again, so much of what is occurring speaks not to beauty, but bedlam.

This little Netflix film was very inspirational. It passes the Bechdel test, and features a different worldview with rural Indian representation.