Seven-year-old Nico plays with his dragon plush toy on a bus until it slips from his hands and falls at the feet of a terrifying 70-year-old man. To retrieve it from the floor, Nico will have to overcome his fear and approach the man without waking him.
Stand and Deliver is an inspirational classic from 1988 starring Edward James Olmos as Jaime Escalante, and his class of rag tag students in East Los Angeles. It’s the story of how a new teacher shows a motley group of students in the inner city with backgrounds as gang members, dishwashers, and mechanics — the power of self-determination. He teaches the teenagers to believe in themselves through algebra and calculus.
It’s been five months since Wayward premiered on Netflix and it still has some of us in a choke-hold.
Intergenerational friendships and community can be so powerful, and this was a great example.
American Fiction is a genuinely entertaining film with a few lessons.
There’s enough evidence to insinuate that What We Do in the Shadows is intentionally queer-coded.
Airplane! (1980) is a fun spoof comedy with lots of laughs, right? I watched this film for the first time the other night. I loved it. Then came the racist jokes.
