Albatross 

A sweet slice-of-life anime that visualizes all the ways we creatively hide our vulnerabilities from the world.

Stranger Things season 4 ups the ante to the max! The show’s scope has been expanding for the past three seasons, and boy do they give us a spectacle to behold. As much as I love spectacle, this season occasionally buckles under the weight of its own ambition.

Like Stars on Earth is a representative movie that talks about dyslexia to young audiences and why it is important in today's generation.

Perhaps the most amazing and groundbreaking quality about The Birdcage is how removed it is from both illness and insensitivity. Whereas films preceding it were often somber stories about the tribulations of being gay in a conservatively straight world, Nichols and screenwriter Elaine May expose the fallacies of conservatism as traditional values are thrown into a more open-minded space. They don’t care how far the community has fallen so much as how high they can rebuild themselves.

We chat with Penelope Lawson about her short film, The Dinner Party, her experience founding her own production company, and fun cinema.