How My Octopus Teacher Depicts Healthy Masculinity
In My Octopus Teacher, documentary filmmaker Craig Foster models healthy masculinity by showing us a trusting, gentle, and emotionally fulfilling bond with an octopus.

An emotionally damaged girl is taken in by a married couple, the Takanashis. Shortly after the start of their happy family, the journalist wife is killed. The villainous forces that murdered his wife now come for Takanashi and his adopted daughter. In order to protect the girl so precious to him, Takanashi stands against them with his karate.
In My Octopus Teacher, documentary filmmaker Craig Foster models healthy masculinity by showing us a trusting, gentle, and emotionally fulfilling bond with an octopus.
Despite the film’s efforts to reframe its heroine with modern complexity, a certain emotional distance lingers.
The heroes of the Mushroom Kingdom make their way to the big screen in this animated movie.
Upon first watch, Buddy feels like it should have been aired on Adult Swim at four in the morning.
This current year, as well as the past several, has seen a slowly building increase in something the horror genre has required for quite a while in this critic's opinion...originality. I've stated before that I am very hard to please when it comes to this vein of the film industry's offerings, always leaning more towards that which sends chills through my very being in lieu of buckets of blood and gore.
This list was made with the intention of celebrating the craft. I love seeing more women of colour on this list than before and more newcomers on the scene as well!