'Life & Beth' and 'Sort Of' - Two New Series Bravely Lose The Labels
J Brooke, Incluvie Guest Columnist on 'Life and Beth' and 'Sort of': while living one’s truth is freedom, speaking it as a mandatory assignment can become captivity.

Ben Meadows (Jesse C. Boyd), visiting his home town in Texas for the first time in ten years, ends up in a coma following a car accident on the way home from his mother's funeral. When Ben wakes from his condition, his doctors realize he is suffering from amnesia. Ben's younger brother, Lee (Layton Matthews), takes him home to recover and it isn't long before Ben begins piecing his memory back together. In a bid to regain his now-lost past, Ben convinces Lee to travel with him to Los Angeles, California in an effort to track down their estranged father. Once in LA, the two discover that their father is not the same person they were hoping to reconnect with and find themselves falling deeper and deeper into a crime world they don't understand. In this gritty tale set in today's urban LA, two brothers come to the realization that some things are better left in the past where they belong.
J Brooke, Incluvie Guest Columnist on 'Life and Beth' and 'Sort of': while living one’s truth is freedom, speaking it as a mandatory assignment can become captivity.
'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.
Shudder’s Host (not a particularly original title, I must say) attempts to bring the spooks to “the quarantine generation” by presenting us with a scary Zoom call during lockdown.
Mahershala Ali and Naomie Harris, with an economy of language, but a world of expression, weave us inside this futuristic tale of how your “one true love” may exist in the future in Benjamin Cleary's 'Swan Song.'
“I’m always interested in exploring female fantasy, and the sexy witch is a loaded archetype that is simultaneously about men’s fears and fantasies about women, and women’s feelings of empowerment and agency. So whereas we are used to seeing the sexy witch or the femme fatale from the outside, I wanted to explore her from the inside.” - Anna Biller, on why she made The Love Witch
Seeing that the film was essentially his first big, mainstream feature, and with garnering a leading role — portraying the revolutionary ball-player Jackie Robinson — Boseman, without question, delivered a performance that is still so incredibly moving, respectful, genuine, and true to the core of his obviously sincere, artistic heart; and with that, it is indeed so saddening to see him pass.