Staff Picks: Inauguration Edition 2021
It’s almost the end of the first month of 2021, and just over a week since the U.S. saw a new president take office. In light of the occasion, some of us highlighted our favorite political films below!

Mika works for a door-to-door sales company founded by Tatsuya, who was a biker gang member in his youth and is now her subordinate. She supports the timid Tatsuya and struggles every day to sell sleep-enhancing pillows, using her mature womanly charm as her weapon. However, the company is on the verge of collapse due to the recession.
It’s almost the end of the first month of 2021, and just over a week since the U.S. saw a new president take office. In light of the occasion, some of us highlighted our favorite political films below!
“The most disrespected person in America is the Black Woman/the most unprotected person in America is the Black Woman,” Director Spivey Jr quotes. The quotes are absolutely true. Misogynoir is a devastating social ill that is not given the weight it is due.
That gut-wrenching feeling you have while watching it is okay but needed, and you, the viewer, will be okay.
An uncomplicated, family-oriented man struggles to adjust to an ever-changing world, especially after suffering a loss. Even for the early 1900s, a less complicated time in many ways than now, Robert Grainier (Joel Edgerton) is a simple man.
Highlighting the many ways in which AFF 2023 illustrated that the queer experience is not a monolithic one.
In a world where we hear ringers and beepers at every corner, technology feels inescapable. This is why technology is often an enemy in Digital J-horrors, like One Missed Call.