Lilya 4-ever (2003)

This drama film is about Priscilla and Elvis Presley's failed marriage through the lens of the title character.

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

Taylor Swift details her successful music career in country and pop genres in this featured documentary film Miss Americana.

Remakes. Reboots. Reinventions. Redundancy. It's the common practice in Hollywood of late, sometimes offering us victorious reimagining of what can be considered cinematic classics while also, more often, falling flat on their UN-imaginative faces in utter defeat and lackluster results. Admittedly, with this in mind, I went into the newest incarnation of "The War of the Roses" with typical trepidation and cautious optimism.

The new biopic 'Elvis' highlights the beginning and end of the career of this rock and roll legend. The audience is taken on this journey knowing the tragic ending but not so much about what led him there. A large topic of discussion is the influences on Elvis that made him who he was as a singer, musician, and performer, which were blues, gospel, and country. Many of the songs that rose him to fame were songs by Black artists he heard growing up in primarily Black settings.

2026 ranks highest in Oscars history for its representation of minorities in all categories, and that’s definitely something to be celebrated.