The M Report

Goran Stolevski is a Macedonian Australian. He was born in North Macedonia, which borders Greece and Serbia. He moved to Australia with his family when he was a child. He's now in his mid to late 30's. He's also openly gay. Stolevski wrote this film and his identity turns out to be important…

Most romantic comedies begin with a meet-cute. Most often, it's a meet-awkward, or at least something awkward happens that ropes the two love interests together. In Notting Hill (1999), that awkward something was the two bumping into each other on the street and spilling juice. Here, that so…

Author Eric Garcia created the series about a group of criminals, planning a heist, a major robbery of someone with billions. It's composed of eight episodes that represent eight different colors. The gimmick is that the episodes can be watched in any order, even though the episodes have a d…

Teyana Taylor (Coming 2 America and Madea's Big Happy Family) stars as Inez De la Paz, a woman who gets out of prison in 1994. She likely was behind bars for theft or maybe more serious robberies. When she does, she tries to get work as a hair stylist, but she was staying in a homeless shelt…

Recently, Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert won the Oscar for Best Director for Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022), a film that could be described as an action comedy. It's rare that filmmaking duos who aren't related by blood or by marriage see that level of success. Collectively, they…

This is the third film released this year coming from the Land Down Under or nearby territories that involves a same-sex male romance and that focuses on an interracial or intercultural relationship. The first was Of An Age (2023), a road trip flick. The second was Punch (2023), a coming-out…

This film is about an all-gay rugby team in the United Kingdom. Most member clubs are part of the International Gay Rugby (IGR) association. Other than England, the majority of the member clubs are located in the United States, of which there are nearly 30. These clubs originated in the earl…

It's a coming-of-age story about a young man in rural New Zealand who is secretly gay and who is an aspiring boxer but not really. It's interesting alternative content, coming the week after the release of Creed III (2023). At first, this might be the LGBTQ answer to that latest entry in the…

This is the 12th entry in the DC Extended Universe (DCEU), the series of super hero films that began with Zack Snyder's Man of Steel (2013), the origin story and darker take on the comic book character of Superman. The best entry was the fourth, that of Wonder Woman (2017). Unfortunately, th…

The adaptation of the PlayStation video game has become a hit series for HBO. It has made Chilean actor, Pedro Pascal a household name. The nearly 50-year-old performer entered mainstream status with his role in The Mandalorian (2019), but if you want that same show but more edgy and with Pa…

This is the first feature narrative under the Onyx Collective. The Onyx Collective is a brand or label, owned by The Walt Disney Company, which has a goal of distributing projects, created by people of color or underrepresented or marginalized groups. It began in 2021 and is led by Tara Dunc…