Portrait of Elizabeth Teixeira and the women who continue her fight. Leader of the Peasant Leagues in Paraíba, she starred in the classic "Cabra Marcado para Morrer" (dir.: Eduardo Coutinho, 1984) and made her mark in the history of the fight for Land reform in Brazil. The documentary is a production of De Olho nos Ruralistas, filmed in July 2023, in João Pessoa and Sapé, when Elizabeth Teixeira had turned 98.
The way Jeannette has to deal with child neglect makes her insecure about her parents and how she was brought up and raised in the United States. This continues into adulthood, where Jeannette becomes a successful journalist and is frequently asked about her parents by others.
Many call 'Tragedy Girls' a modern-day 'Heathers', and I do see the resemblance. The film asks the same question that all teenagers suffer with: who am I? Well, the movie answers this — you are your online presence.
Sorry to Bother You ultimately speaks to the unfair advantages that the country’s power structures award to those with the resources to control others, as Lift’s easy access to the media allows his opinion to be the only one that matters in the eyes of the unsuspecting and easily impressed public. Moreover, it reveals the extent to which the American Dream has any true validity. It postulates how the promise of success and fulfillment as promoted by the American Dream more often than not leads to the undoing of the individual. Interestingly, in its revealing of the American Dream as merely a facade, Sorry to Bother You wisely questions whether or not anything can really be done to undo a system that has been accepted and in action for centuries.
Happy Halloween! If you were debating capping off Spooky Season with a viewing of Hocus Pocus 2, it is just very clear that this is more for the younger audience as opposed to people who grew up with the original.
World-famous drag queen Trixie Mattel shares a year of her life with the world in this vulnerable and uplifting documentary.
By undermining the appeal and credibility of black characters, the show compromises the very idea of diversity and representation it sets to promote.
