Exposure has a way of nudging you with doubt — and at its most intense, it can reignite past trauma. As Arc’teryx athlete Tonje Kvivik’s career as a big mountain skier took her to greater heights, anxiety from her childhood began to reappear. In her quest to confront old fears, Tonje turns to her community for guidance: her grandfather, Arne, in Norway, and her close friend and teammate, snowboarder Spencer O’Brien. With their wisdom and encouragement as her guide, she steps into unfamiliar terrain and discovers an inner strength she never knew she had.
White audiences saw Peola’s mixed-race passing as a Black woman’s struggle to be white. Black audiences saw it as the rebellion of a Black woman trying to gain privileges only given to white people.
A haunting look at grief, survival, and a mother’s quiet collapse in a world that never gave her room to fall.
‘Babylon’ is an exhilarating journey one has to brace themselves for
It is as bad as your remember, and you are fortunate if you've never watched it. Keep it that way!
Netflix's Afterlife of the Party might fall into the rom-com genre, but it's much more about grief, strong female friendships, and platonic love than it is about romance.
It’s the most loving tribute to cinema and to Ingmar Bergman, set in world that feels so habitable that I felt like only re-watching this for eternity, because of how inviting it looks and feels.
