Ender's Game (2013)

Wacky antics ensue when a 100-year-old Jewish man wakes up from a pickled hibernation in the modern world.

Ben Affleck leads The Way Back, a seemingly cathartic film for him after the actor’s recent bouts with alcoholism and rehab. He plays Jack, a man fighting his own battles who happens upon coaching a boys’ basketball team, the same team he once played for back in high school.

A Black woman centered in a box office rom-com with a happy ending and no struggle love.

“And I think to myself….what a wonderful world”. Louis Armstrong sang about this notion via his classic 1967 song, an ode to witnessing elements of our life that should be but some reminders of exactly what that concluding line of each verse indicates. Now we see our contemporary realities and, just being honest, it makes a sentiment like this seem SO overtly far away….perhaps even impossible….to accept or believe could be. It sounds harsh, but again, so much of what is occurring speaks not to beauty, but bedlam.

Life may find a way, but is it worth testing its fierceness and how far it will go?

Praising Black representation and condemning the power structures that suppress it, a mother delivers an impassioned speech to her distant son.