Holly Does Hollywood (1985)

A family adventure film that features Hawaiian culture with a representative director and a diverse cast.

This current year, as well as the past several, has seen a slowly building increase in something the horror genre has required for quite a while in this critic's opinion...originality. I've stated before that I am very hard to please when it comes to this vein of the film industry's offerings, always leaning more towards that which sends chills through my very being in lieu of buckets of blood and gore.

In My Octopus Teacher, documentary filmmaker Craig Foster models healthy masculinity by showing us a trusting, gentle, and emotionally fulfilling bond with an octopus.

This is not a slavery story, it is a freedom story. The viewers only see Harriet as a slave for the first few minutes of the film. To me, it felt like watching the origin story of a superhero…which is both good and bad.

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.

If your upbringing was anything like mine, where the TV acted as an additional parent- there are so many new stories and perspectives to explore.