Innocence 8: Perfect Pink (2005)

Tara Thorne’s film is equal parts emotional and comedic, illustrating the beauty and the pain of long term relationships.

A homeless girl faces depression and uncertainty during the holidays.

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.

If Miguel Alexandre were trying to make a revenge story seem dull without using all the effective formulas that work great in this catchy genre, he could not have accomplished his purpose much better than he unintentionally has in Black Island.

Disclosure Day asks us to question humanity's role in the universe but falls victim to the same assumptions of centrality.

This action thriller is made with the hope that the black youth of America will feel empowered, and realize the significance of their heritage.