"Spider-Man: Brand New Day" And Struggling With Grief
The highly anticipated Marvel superhero movie of the year displays important themes of loss, loneliness, and change.

10 years since the Great East Japan Earthquake. Rei, who was affected by the disaster in Ishinomaki, graduated from a university in Tokyo with scholarship funds and is currently working at a renovation company in Saitama Prefecture. Worried about her younger childhood friend, Nagi, who tends to withdraw in her hometown, she visits Ishinomaki with her junior at work, Yuta. While Yuta grows closer to his girlfriend Nagi, Rei looks back on her days spent with her mother, whose whereabouts are still unknown.
The highly anticipated Marvel superhero movie of the year displays important themes of loss, loneliness, and change.
The new biopic 'Elvis' highlights the beginning and end of the career of this rock and roll legend. The audience is taken on this journey knowing the tragic ending but not so much about what led him there. A large topic of discussion is the influences on Elvis that made him who he was as a singer, musician, and performer, which were blues, gospel, and country. Many of the songs that rose him to fame were songs by Black artists he heard growing up in primarily Black settings.
This animated movie is based on the migration of birds from the north to the south.
I first saw Dear Evan Hansen on the Broadway stage. Apparently, I was so blown away by the magic of theater that I didn’t pick up on the questionable dynamics. The story's clumsy handling in the movie brought those issues to light.
Cord Jefferson's hilarious and thought-provoking film continues a long-standing cinematic tradition, expanding the conversation around the impact of systemic racism in today's media.
She is being made to justify why she doesn’t believe he’s a feminist, instead of him having to justify his choice to claim he is one.