'Merry & Gay': A smart and heartfelt LGBTQ Christmas venture
The film centers around two young women, Becca and Sam, who were once high school sweethearts until they reconnect in their town.

Chun and Jane are siblings. They were very close as children, but after Jane graduated and started working, while Chun stayed at school for his PhD and spent most of his time in the dorm, they gradually drifted apart. One morning, Jane receives news that her brother has committed suicide. While handling his affairs, she discovers that he had already bought insurance, suggesting he had planned this for some time. To find out the reason behind his death, Jane uses his computer and starts messaging his friends on social media, slowly rediscovering the brother she once knew. In the end, Jane realizes that her search for answers was not only for her brother—and the culprit was never just one person.
The film centers around two young women, Becca and Sam, who were once high school sweethearts until they reconnect in their town.
Adrian Chiarella’s Leviticus is a beautiful, poignant, enraging, gut-wrenching, and heartbreaking film about the trauma and harm conversion therapy inflicts on young queer people. Even though its classification as horror holds, the emotional bond between the two main characters, Naim and Ryan, elevates the story into a realistic romantic drama on par with Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
Have a Good Trip offers a rather balanced look at psychedelic use. While its main narrative is the stories of recreational use by celebrities, it does delve into the medical history of psychedelics and its use in psychotherapy.
What are we willing to walk through to see our dreams come to pass? Our minds might be so wholly alive with the passions we carry and the plans we make to see these things become all we wish them to be, yet life doesn’t always want to come alongside. Instead, obstacles arise, both physical and mental, which attempt to dissuade us or even prevent us from moving forward, stalling or stagnating the momentum to achieve what we desire. The age-old question remains….can we overcome? Or will we BE overcome?
I understand that this would have been consistent with the language used by that generation, due to its role in the medical profession, however as someone who has family members with Down Syndrome I took it very personally.
By undermining the appeal and credibility of black characters, the show compromises the very idea of diversity and representation it sets to promote.