"Le Bonheur" and the Feminism of Varda
Effortlessly beautiful and surprisingly tragic.

Ring in “CMA Country Christmas” with hosts Lauren Daigle and Jordan Davis this holiday season with a night full of festive classics and one-of-a-kind musical performances. Now in it's 16th year, the 2025 special is filmed in Nashville, Tennessee and airs each holiday season on ABC Television Network.
Effortlessly beautiful and surprisingly tragic.
During the rise of fascism in Mussolini's Italy, a wooden boy brought magically to life struggles to live up to his father's expectations.
Ultimately the problem with The Bubble is that it plays everything for laughs to get around the audience’s defenses. But it comes off like a privileged white male thinking that ridiculing everyone else equally is the road to equality. And it’s not. And it's definitely not funny to pretend that it is.
The film reminds us to remember the people who had the courage and dignity that had made the world better, even when the memory was absent.
In episode 4 of 'Hawkeye,' things are getting real, from a mystery surrounding a Rolex watch to hints at a certain "big guy" to the reveal of [SPOILER].
What seems like such a simple story of survival is so much more than that—it’s a story of family, and of war, and of destruction. It’s painful to watch, but not in a bad way. It makes its audience reflect on their own actions, and in how they are complicit in the sufferings of others as the adults in this film are. Grave of the Fireflies does not hold back from being heartbreaking, and it shouldn’t. It tells a message that needs to be heard decades after the war, and a story that cannot be forgotten by history.