A Look Inside the Ivy and Bean Film Series
The tale of two friends spans three films and gives wonderful representation for young girls everywhere.

Money alone does not make you happy. This is something the newly minted millionaire Kurt Basinski finds painful when his wife leaves him. To cheer up the sad lucky guy, his resolute mother Edda booked a holiday together in a luxury holiday home in Marrakech. Together with her second son Ottfried and his wife Jutta she wants to persuade the lottery millionaire incidentally to invest his money in the shoemaker operation of the Basinskis. Kurt does not care about that. Only when he falls in love with the pretty cook Mona, his spirits awaken.
The tale of two friends spans three films and gives wonderful representation for young girls everywhere.
A successful author’s life is upended when she finds herself on a plantation straight out of the antebellum south.
“I’m always interested in exploring female fantasy, and the sexy witch is a loaded archetype that is simultaneously about men’s fears and fantasies about women, and women’s feelings of empowerment and agency. So whereas we are used to seeing the sexy witch or the femme fatale from the outside, I wanted to explore her from the inside.” - Anna Biller, on why she made The Love Witch
Netflix’s new mystery thriller, The Marked Woman (released originally as La Desconocida), is confusing. More critically, though, it commits the worst mistake a movie can make: it’s boring. From Spanish director Gabe Ibáñez, the film squanders its premise at every turn, fills the story with unlikeable characters, and lacks emotional payoff.
It surely isn't for everybody and could certainly offend some folks, but Troll Hunter takes a different approach to representing religion in a film.
Juno is extremely funny, very well-written, and contains great performances. The film is also about a very important topic, one that is extremely relevant now: women’s reproductive rights. Is this Oscar-winning film spreading a pro-life or pro-choice message to its audience?