Jenny’s Wedding (2015) [+] Independent drama starring Katherine Heigl as Jenny, thirty-something professional in the Midwest where her parents and brother and sister are very white bread American and she's still in the closet. Once she finally reveals that she wants to marry her longtime "roommate" Kitty (Alexis Bledel) her parents want to be supportive but also want her to keep it a secret so as not to embarrass, which creates quite a hardship for Jenny...

Started watching this late one night and didn't stop until it ended. I've seen it several times and I love this movie. It's a bit slow, low key, and touching without trying to be a hard drama or characters actually hating lesbians.

Upcoming Summer (2021) [/] Chinese teen drama movie. Chen Chen (Zhang Zi Feng) fails an important exam and blames it on a bad breakup with boyfriend Zheng Yu Xing (Leo Wu, Amidst a Snowstorm of Love, 2024; The Long Ballad, 2021). But they've never had a relationship -- he's never at school so he was a convenient excuse. After this though Zheng starts hanging out with his "girlfriend" and they bond over their traumas: he's pining for his ex after she dumped him and she's trying to keep it together after finding out her parents divorced a year ago... I disliked that it has a bit of an ambiguous ending so not sure how it turns out for them.

Monster Train+ (2024) [/] Turn-based card mechanics tactical combat game. Concept is that it's the end of the world and you're on a train fleeing demons. You have two or three stops (and a choice of two routes) to get cards, upgrades, or resources. Then it's a fight.

The train has three floors and then the train's heart at the top. Each floor has three spaces for good guys and three spaces for bad guys. Each turn bad guys enter on the ground floor and surviving bad guys move up a floor. Then you spend resources to place units or activate powers. Then one round of automatic combat reminiscent of Magic the Gathering or Hearthstone except you don't choose targets (well, you do if you activate a magic attack) -- each unit targets the front enemy unit (unless otherwise indicated, such as for area attacks) until it's dead. If you don't have any defenders on the top floor then bad guys there hit the train's heart (which starts at 60 hp so it cant take a few turns).

Eventually the boss arrives with each boss having fairly distinct abilities. You get one turn to place units then the fight is continuous until the floor is cleared. If the boss wins he moves up and you get another turn to use cards then another continuous fight. After the fight you one card from a choice of two so you can adjust your strategy that way.

It's an ok game. Not really original mechanics. Not really much in terms of story. Somehow a game like Slay the Spire is a better experience, possibly because the fights are quicker and it ramps up slower than in Monster Train.