Life's Story 2: The Reason For The Journey 

Despite the film’s efforts to reframe its heroine with modern complexity, a certain emotional distance lingers.

The live-action remake of the classic Disney film based on a wooden puppet is finally here.

Poor Black characters are usually surrounded by crime and violence, while poor White characters are portrayed as noble and hard-working.

It's not love. It's Obsession. The hook of this movie is the tension between wanting to be loved and the fear of being all-encompassed by that love.  It plays on men’s typical (though certainly not universal) inner-conflict

For one widowed father and his five kids, an extraordinary gift will change their lives forever.

What seems like such a simple story of survival is so much more than that—it’s a story of family, and of war, and of destruction. It’s painful to watch, but not in a bad way. It makes its audience reflect on their own actions, and in how they are complicit in the sufferings of others as the adults in this film are. Grave of the Fireflies does not hold back from being heartbreaking, and it shouldn’t. It tells a message that needs to be heard decades after the war, and a story that cannot be forgotten by history.