Staff Picks: Inauguration Edition 2021
It’s almost the end of the first month of 2021, and just over a week since the U.S. saw a new president take office. In light of the occasion, some of us highlighted our favorite political films below!

A disgruntled music critic travels cross-country with her inheritance -- a Jack Russell Terrier named Binky.
It’s almost the end of the first month of 2021, and just over a week since the U.S. saw a new president take office. In light of the occasion, some of us highlighted our favorite political films below!
This delightfully odd horror movie presents a whimsically strange alternate reality to younger audiences.
'Blue Beetle' is another solid addition to the superhero film canon.
The new biopic 'Elvis' highlights the beginning and end of the career of this rock and roll legend. The audience is taken on this journey knowing the tragic ending but not so much about what led him there. A large topic of discussion is the influences on Elvis that made him who he was as a singer, musician, and performer, which were blues, gospel, and country. Many of the songs that rose him to fame were songs by Black artists he heard growing up in primarily Black settings.
'Barbarian' is horror infused with something ridiculous that makes the whole thing entertaining.
Friendships are tested when two girls have a crush on the popular boy at school.