Revisiting Lady Bird - Now on Netflix
Lady Bird (Saoirse Ronan) tells her mother (Laurie Metcalf) that she wants to live through something — something that matters.

Born with a facial deformity, 16-year-old Eugénie faces harassment from her classmates, most of all Sam, and only finds comfort in her faith. One day, Sam gets particularly brutal with her, and she is rescued by Father Mathieu, the new priest of the town's church. Father Mathieu immediately sees in her what could be a modern Martyr and wants to teach her the ways to sanctity. Made saint, Eugénie sees her confidence rising, and even Sam cannot help but notice it...
Lady Bird (Saoirse Ronan) tells her mother (Laurie Metcalf) that she wants to live through something — something that matters.
One Christmas Eve, after a sudden snowstorm, a group of teenagers will discover how their lives will change forever.
A direct fall into the white savior narrative
“Ad Astra” is a film that possesses similar beats to sci-fi classics, falling into the realm of cinematic hypnotism, and pulling us in with its mysteriously intoxicating identity.
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.