Amidst her best friend’s party overflowing with secrets and unspoken desires, Lisa realizes that her love with the seemingly perfect prince is not a fairy tale but a cruel act of ghosting. Navigating through all her timelines, she explores her endless possibilities of her destinies. Introducing in a new montage form, a collage of in-concluded narratives, The Kingdom of Fairies weaves fragments inspired by the fleeting aesthetics and unfinished narratives of TikTok and short-reel culture. The film drifts through the emotional urgency and spectacle of perfection that define our hyperconnected age, where love becomes simulation, heartbreak becomes performance, and identity becomes mimicry shaped by algorithmic desire. In a world numbed by excess, the longing to rediscover magic and the freedom to feel becomes a quiet act of resistance.
'Free Guy' combines classic Disney (a white heteronormative love story), exploration of popular video games and the culture around them, and Ryan Reynolds adult humor in the best way to make a super fun family flick.
Ricky Staub’s Concrete Cowboy, based on Greg Neri’s novel "Ghetto Cowboy", tells the story of a young teenager forced to adapt to a new lifestyle.
Omaha reminds us of what it can feel like to look at old family photographs. You sit with the bittersweetness, allowing it to wash over you; not drowning in it, but certainly affected by it.
“The most disrespected person in America is the Black Woman/the most unprotected person in America is the Black Woman,” Director Spivey Jr quotes. The quotes are absolutely true. Misogynoir is a devastating social ill that is not given the weight it is due.
I was able to sit down and talk with singer/songwriter Carson Lueders about his career in the music industry. We talked influences from country music to Pop, and his working relationship with Quavo from the The Migos.
Disney’s Hunchback of Notre Dame is a unique film coming from the same studio that brought us The Little Mermaid and Aladdin. While it does have its silly moments to maintain Disney’s family-friendliness, it also carries themes that stick to audiences years after its release.
