Dagudumootha Dandakor 

Ester Shapiro who flees the only home she has ever known to start a new life in Berlin.

As this critic continues to look back at some of this Summer's films I have taken in, I would be remiss if I didn't mention one of the most overall unsettling trends in Hollywood over the last several years.....sequels, reboots, and remakes. Look, I am all for seeing more than one film for certain originals that made a splash, ie: "Jurassic Park", "Pirates of the Caribbean", "Transformers", etc.

As legal dramas go, we rarely see an African-American actor in the lead role. "The Burial" has several.

The Last Son of Krypton returns as the kind-hearted, blue-eyed boy scout we all know and love.

Netflix’s Shadow and Bone has a complicated relationship with race. It has a diverse cast, but not without its problems. Based on Leigh Bardugo’s two book series, the show features characters from the Shadow and Bone trilogy, which is very straight and white, and the Six of Crows duology, which is much more diverse. When bringing together a cast and writing about these characters, the team behind the show expanded upon some of the representation missing from the first trilogy, then seemed to take away representation from the duology. Shadow and Bone seems to play a bit of a push and pull game when it comes to portraying diversity onscreen.

Disclosure Day asks us to question humanity's role in the universe but falls victim to the same assumptions of centrality.