Develop (2024)

"Beef" is a new dark comedy with a near entire Asian-American cast

Perhaps the most amazing and groundbreaking quality about The Birdcage is how removed it is from both illness and insensitivity. Whereas films preceding it were often somber stories about the tribulations of being gay in a conservatively straight world, Nichols and screenwriter Elaine May expose the fallacies of conservatism as traditional values are thrown into a more open-minded space. They don’t care how far the community has fallen so much as how high they can rebuild themselves.

Stand and Deliver is an inspirational classic from 1988 starring Edward James Olmos as Jaime Escalante, and his class of rag tag students in East Los Angeles. It’s the story of how a new teacher shows a motley group of students in the inner city with backgrounds as gang members, dishwashers, and mechanics — the power of self-determination. He teaches the teenagers to believe in themselves through algebra and calculus.

A 2022 remake of the previous films of the same name, but with a more diverse cast, increasing representation and diversity.

Critical Incident is worthy of a weekend binge, keeping you guessing right up until the end.

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