
The Missionary Position (2014) is a feature length Canadian Christian sex comedy about Jenny Stone, a 21-year-old missionary who has just moved to Toronto from small town Ontario. She lands a job working behind the snack bar at the legendary Bloor Cinema. Out on the cinema marquee one night she meets Nathan Ark, a teenage runaway who has secretly taken up residence behind the screen at the crumbling movie palace. They start to get close... maybe too close. After all, she's a Christian, and he's sixteen...
Amberley Snyder, a young woman whose injury leaves her with a disability, shows viewers that her handicapped state won't stop her from competition.
That gut-wrenching feeling you have while watching it is okay but needed, and you, the viewer, will be okay.
Hustlers was meant to be a film about female empowerment. And it was, to a certain extent. I expected and wanted this to be a kickass and complex film of sexy women who use their confidence, skills, and wits towards a brilliant plan to get revenge on the Wall Street guys who wronged them.
In a post-Gamergate media landscape, it's ambitious to have a film confront the harsh reactions to women in gaming from a comedic lens.
A complex, realistic, and loving mother-daughter relationship is at the heart of this story about Black pageants and the fight for a better future.