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Red, White & Royal Blue (2023)
A further step in equality!
This film just made my day, it may not be the most marvelously written pice of cinema, but these kinds of movies never are and they don't try to be. We've all watched countless cheesy Christmas movies and simple romantic comedies as children with our moms, well now we have a movie where the young gay boy watching dosen't have to imagine himself in the place of Anne Hathaway or Jennifer Love Hewitt. He has a man falling in love with a prince, dancing with him, going to balls and waving to the croud, no longer feeling as though that is only a fantasy not able to happen to him or that only a girl can have that fairytale life. With this film the creators have drawn a story of dreams in which the romantic, imaginative, starry-eyed young gay boy can see him-self, and not feel as though what he wants is being othered, but is something that just IS. There is little more that I can say, but how happy I am that this and hopefuly more films like it are and will be made, for we all have a child in us that wants to romanticise their grown up life and dream of falling in love with a prince and living in a palace.
American Born Chinese (2023)
Mix of American Teen Story and Chinese Action Mythological Films
I found this show to be very enticing, fully binge-watching it in one sitting. The costumes are average, but having watched other movies trying to emulate the same energy I found American Born Chinese slightly above average. The casting was amazing, though I might just be a biased Michelle Yeoh fan, though I thought Jin's mother to be one of the best cast actors in the series along with Jin's dad. Overall, it is a teen show with a story inspired by Chinese mythology, not to be taken seriously or criticized to the standard of Breaking Bad, The Sopranos or Game of Thrones, it's your more than average Disney show with a similar feel to Wendy Wu: Homecoming Warrior, but done much better. Having a nostalgic feel to some wacky Jackie Chan movies and the cheese 2000's American teen show, a feel-good series with good acting and great familial relationships.
*I also loved the fact that the people in the show didn't need much convincing into helping with the main plot, I find it's a much more accurate depiction of the reaction a person from a chronically online generation would have, it's refreshing not having people doubt the main character's sanity for 3 episodes or even longer.
Love, Death & Robots: Pop Squad (2021)
Sad
They killed a small baby child. Da. If u are not prepared to cry do not watch, one hundered and fifty characters. You must write 150 characters. Omg i want a simple review.