"Apex" Captures the Primal Fear of Being a Woman
Given a choice between a man and a mountain, it’s safer to choose the mountain.

On Gabriela's birthday, Laura is with her little sister when she chooses her long-awaited gift: a little fish. But things take a turn for the worse when Laura forgets the little fish's aquarium at a theater, making her anxious about when someone will notice it's missing. Based on the theme of sisterly love, this short film explores the emotional universe of a child by focusing on the main character's feelings and her concerns. But, more than anything, Aquarium is about the love that two sisters feel for each other – which is bigger than anything and everything.
Given a choice between a man and a mountain, it’s safer to choose the mountain.
Netflix’s new mystery thriller, The Marked Woman (released originally as La Desconocida), is confusing. More critically, though, it commits the worst mistake a movie can make: it’s boring. From Spanish director Gabe Ibáñez, the film squanders its premise at every turn, fills the story with unlikeable characters, and lacks emotional payoff.
Not only does the system prevent upward mobility, but it makes it incredibly easy to slide from comfortably middle class to unhoused.
Dead Poets Society brilliantly combines defeat and optimism, rejection and love, craziness and daring, fear and freedom.
While not everyone may relate to the circumstances Danielle finds herself in in 'Shiva Baby', some are sure to understand her struggles as she is scrutinized for being a woman, a college student, an LGBT person, and a sugar baby.