Tis the night before Christmas and all is peaceful. Parents get much needed rest, whilst children dream expectant. Unfortunately for teenage cheerleader, Kirsten, her dream quickly turns into a nightmare when she is abruptly woken by her 8-year-old sister, Alice.
"First Day" is a trans kid slice-of-life tv show that brings desperately needed diversity to coming-of-age stories in mainstream media. Here's a show that get's it right by having a trans actress in a story centered on trans girlhood.
It only seems to prove that when the company had their backs against the wall and needed an all pleasing, generic movie that had to make up for The Last Jedi, they chose to sacrifice almost everything that made their main protagonist interesting and that made her stand out as the strong female character that a generation of young movie goers was supposed to look up to. Instead, we were left with a Rey that was so much less than she could have been. And I guess that’s the real story of Rey and The Rise of Skywalker; they could have been so much more, but they were just more of the same.
Films can alleviate alienation by presenting realities where the viewers feelings are shared by onscreen characters. 'The Little Mermaid" film can be interpreted as a transgender story.
Sam Levinson's latest film can't keep up with the excellence of its performances.
The film illustrates the life of a single who struggles to provide an ideal childhood for her two daughters.
As an Indian lesbian living in the United Kingdom, the cards are stacked against Geetika from the start.
