Brother of the Wind (1972)

Set against the backdrop of the Jim Crow era, the film offers layered representation.

What happens to an inseparable bond when love for competing morphs into competing for love?

At first glance, “The Good Liar” is a respectable piece of fiction, starring Ian McKellen and Helen Mirren. But underneath everything, the film expertly hones the unpredictability of deceit.

Horse racing is a very difficult sport and challenge, especially for a young woman like Michelle Payne.

It only seems to prove that when the company had their backs against the wall and needed an all pleasing, generic movie that had to make up for The Last Jedi, they chose to sacrifice almost everything that made their main protagonist interesting and that made her stand out as the strong female character that a generation of young movie goers was supposed to look up to. Instead, we were left with a Rey that was so much less than she could have been. And I guess that’s the real story of Rey and The Rise of Skywalker; they could have been so much more, but they were just more of the same.

This emotional, frightening, and dreamlike story examines the ways actresses are exploited in the name of art.