'The Slumber Party' (2023)
This coming-of-age movie is about a group of girl trying to find their missing friend after a wild night none of them can remember.

Director Eva Stotz visits people she has found in online host networks such as Couchsurfing.org and immerses herself in their lives for a limited period of time: her inspiring hosts are a music-loving Tuareg in Mali, a wildlife lover in Tokyo, an ecologist in the Palestinian West Bank, a dance enthusiast in Turkey and a visionary in the USA. The film discovers an exciting new way of traveling and tells of the longing for genuine encounters and an alternative to fear, isolation and mistrust in the modern world.
This coming-of-age movie is about a group of girl trying to find their missing friend after a wild night none of them can remember.
I came across Urchin by chance and decided to watch it because of the title. It made me think of the spiky animal that lives at the bottom of the ocean, and the old Dickensian novels, where an urchin was an orphaned, homeless child in shaggy and dirty clothes.
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The original series is now on Netflix, you should definitely give it a watch. And if you’ve already seen it, watch it again.
This little Netflix film was very inspirational. It passes the Bechdel test, and features a different worldview with rural Indian representation.
Ultra-violent storytelling has never been my thing, but the issues with Scarface go beyond that. The film perpetuates harmful stereotypes about Latinx immigrants and uses gore and misogyny for shock value that never serves any purpose. The whole venture is frustratingly empty, and left me desiring something more.