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This issue includes reviews from Editor Anna Faktorovich of films viewed during the summer of 2023 on Disney+, including comments the risks to life faced by Hazen Audel on Primal Survivor, the farcical cooking on Gordon Ramsay: Uncharted, the strange turn towards animal-rights taken by James Gunn in Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 3, the echoing near-extinction pro-animal activism in Pete's Dragon, and the realistic computer animation of space-travel in Lightyear. There is also a review by Jack Love on the scarcity of the American Dream in The Fabelmans. Jeremy Freeman reviews masculine communication in in The Lobster. And there is an essay by Dalton Sikes on gender and performativity in He's Out There.