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Randall Okita’s SEE FOR ME at Tribeca 2021 Review: turns the tables on everyone – us included – in home invasion thriller

By Luke Y. Thompson 5 years ago

But See for Me is no simple “good women versus bad men” escapist shoot ’em up. Sophie is a pragmatist above all else, and will switch sides however many times it takes in order to stay alive. Okita, along with writers Adam Yorke and Tommy Gushue, not only look to shatter stereotypes about the disabled as they relate to their abilities, but also their perceived nobility. They’re not afraid to have their heroes be seriously flawed, in ways that major studio executives would probably insist on sanding off.

Mike Mosallam’s BREAKING FAST at BENTONVILLE Film Festival REVIEW; described as My Big Slim Middle-Eastern Gay Non-Wedding – and that’s just fine

By Luke Y. Thompson 6 years ago

Where Breaking Fast goes deeper is in the roots of the character conflict being so culturally specific. Mo assumes his own liberal take on Islam is the only right one, and homophobia in the religion merely an aspect of colonialism. Kal has his own family issues that make trusting hard. When they and their comic-relief best friends fight, they’re pulling at resilient weeds that have bedeviled far more patient cultivators.