‘Kim’s Convenience’: A Canadian Export Better Than Maple Syrup
Korean culture shines in this Canadian export.

Michal Znaniecki stages Pergolesi's Il Flaminio at the Teatro Valeria Moriconi in Jesi, using a deliberately theatrical setting to play truth against fiction and tragedy against comedy. Ottavio Dantone conducts the Accademia Bizantina, with Juan Francisco Gatell, Laura Polverelli and Marina De Liso leading the cast. Recording is from 2010.
Korean culture shines in this Canadian export.
Stand and Deliver is an inspirational classic from 1988 starring Edward James Olmos as Jaime Escalante, and his class of rag tag students in East Los Angeles. It’s the story of how a new teacher shows a motley group of students in the inner city with backgrounds as gang members, dishwashers, and mechanics — the power of self-determination. He teaches the teenagers to believe in themselves through algebra and calculus.
New horror film "Pretty" is good to look at thanks to 19-year-old director Metecan Duren.
A working class mom searches for her daughter.
While the film didn’t hit me as emotionally as I wanted it to, I still enjoyed it. I simply wish there was a little more, particularly with the world building.
The power to function. As people, we are richly blessed to have the wide ranging scope of what we can accomplish…physically and mentally…that aid in everything we desire to strive for and, ideally, accomplish. However, what if someone was experiencing daily life with these elements….only in a more muted manner?