The Japanese Dog 

Lee Daniels’s Billie Holiday biopic The United States vs. Billie Holiday was released on February 26th, 2021, and my immediate reaction to it was one of discomfort.

‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ is preoccupied with plot and not on the greater struggle of the Osage.

The coming-of-age story that brings viewers into the world of Broadway, New York City, with musical talent and LGBTQ leads.

Perhaps the most amazing and groundbreaking quality about The Birdcage is how removed it is from both illness and insensitivity. Whereas films preceding it were often somber stories about the tribulations of being gay in a conservatively straight world, Nichols and screenwriter Elaine May expose the fallacies of conservatism as traditional values are thrown into a more open-minded space. They don’t care how far the community has fallen so much as how high they can rebuild themselves.

This thrilling film about feminine rage and male hostility is an incredible depiction of the fragility of the male ego.

With such a raw look at the 15th century, it seems that Disney was really trying to step outside of its element with this motion picture.