Queer Friendship is Complicated in "Lakeview" (2024)
Tara Thorne’s film is equal parts emotional and comedic, illustrating the beauty and the pain of long term relationships.

There is an old cinema in Wonju, and some people want to preserve the historic cinema. But the mayor wants to demolish a 60-year-old cinema. How will this story end? No matter how it ends up, Wonju Academy Cinema is a film about people who love old and historic single-screen cinema.
Tara Thorne’s film is equal parts emotional and comedic, illustrating the beauty and the pain of long term relationships.
Nightbooks, the newest entry in children's horror, honors classic horror films, focuses on themes of acceptance, and has awesome production design.
"There is something going on between us that I cannot unravel."
The relationship between the characters is what makes this film stand out, and it’s just all-around fun.
If the message here is that without a support system, grieving people turn into monsters, it’s not really well-delivered and may be flawed as a message itself.
Disney has cleverly managed to dance around the misdeeds of their past by scraping by with an insincere action that does very little to incite any long-lasting positive changes.