Breaking Free 

Gritty and bleak are the best words to describe this film. There’s nothing happy about it.

Ruben Östlund muses about his characters, “As soon as you get close to a person, you see them as just another human being”. It is widely recognized that aboard the luxury yacht in ‘Triangle of Sadness’, the different groups of people represent a small society as a commentary on classism and gender binaries.

A young boy who runs away from home discovers friendship when he befriends a young dragon in this animated movie.

One of THE most frustrating trends in the mainstream film industry over the last several decades has been the onset of comedy efforts that seem SO focused on being crude and/or gross-out in all ways possible. That, at least for me, makes them no longer funny.

Movies also have the ability to make the audience think deeper about an issue that plagues society. "Blindspotting" does that without shying away from the intense reality of police brutality and racial discrimination.

Rather than focusing on the bleak, cynical aspects of life post-pandemic, the focus is optimistic and hopeful.