'Night at the Museum: Kahmunrah Rises Again' (2022)
This animated movie focuses on Nick Daley, the son of Larry Daley, as "Kahmunrah Rises Again."

Hülya and Mustafa try to organize their tent life so that their children can continue with their lives. The youngest child, İbo, is an exuberant boy full of joy. Having suddenly become homeless, he has also tasted the freedom of being able to go out to the streets at any moment, and prefers to spend all his time playing outside instead of going to school. Neither İbo nor his family are fully aware of the traumatic impact of homelessness. They act as if they had always lived in a tent, behaving as though everything were perfectly normal. They believe that their life in the tent is temporary and spend their days making plans to build a new home. From a distance, they appear ordinary, just like any happy family. However, as time passes quickly, their plans gradually give way to despair.
This animated movie focuses on Nick Daley, the son of Larry Daley, as "Kahmunrah Rises Again."
Netflix’s Shadow and Bone has a complicated relationship with race. It has a diverse cast, but not without its problems. Based on Leigh Bardugo’s two book series, the show features characters from the Shadow and Bone trilogy, which is very straight and white, and the Six of Crows duology, which is much more diverse. When bringing together a cast and writing about these characters, the team behind the show expanded upon some of the representation missing from the first trilogy, then seemed to take away representation from the duology. Shadow and Bone seems to play a bit of a push and pull game when it comes to portraying diversity onscreen.
In 1977, Star Wars changed the world. It took the universe by storm, completely redefining everything everyone knew about movies. But then, in 1980, The Empire Strikes Back changed Star Wars. Sequels were not as well regarded back then as they are today.
The gentle, emotional nuances of Evan’s coming-of-age story would have been so beneficial to have incorporated into the life of a POC character. Showing a Black, Asian or Latino young man that is afforded the space to be vulnerable, flawed and sensitive while driving a compelling and widely-loved narrative would have been a game changer.
The newest in a long line of Cinderella adaptations, Amazon’s Cinderella (2021) prizes girlbossification above the very story it tries to adapt.
What are we willing to walk through to see our dreams come to pass? Our minds might be so wholly alive with the passions we carry and the plans we make to see these things become all we wish them to be, yet life doesn’t always want to come alongside. Instead, obstacles arise, both physical and mental, which attempt to dissuade us or even prevent us from moving forward, stalling or stagnating the momentum to achieve what we desire. The age-old question remains….can we overcome? Or will we BE overcome?