Black Dog 

I was able to watch the gleefully mesmerizing Disney remake that was Robert Zemeckis’ Pinocchio. I was enthralled by Zemeckis’ iteration. 

Neo Sora left a realistic and yet hopeful notion for the near future and the now.

The Gates, John Burr’s new thriller film, is a disturbingly realistic portrayal of three Black twenty-somethings - Derek (Mason Gooding), Kevin (Algee Smith), and Tyon (Keith Powers), as they accidentally take a wrong turn into a gated community that’s more like a modern-day sundown town. The three friends witness a variety of crimes in their new surroundings, including an attempted homicide and an attempted rape. As they attempt to alert the authorities and do the right thing, they are thwarted at every turn by the worst horror stories of American conservatism - racist white suburbanites, reckless gun violence, corrupt police, religious mania, and a megalomaniacal pastor. 

Soul takes intangible concepts like self and personality and makes them completely palpable and simple to digest.

Holiday hijinks ensue when a recently separated couple are both accidently invited to same holiday celebration.

The Magician's Elephant has a strong multicultural cast and a heartwarming story about bringing two long-lost siblings back together