Pavement: Primavera Sound 2022 Barcelona 

This side-splitting workplace comedy features a diverse cast and tackles challenging social issues. Other sitcoms should take note.

Stand and Deliver is an inspirational classic from 1988 starring Edward James Olmos as Jaime Escalante, and his class of rag tag students in East Los Angeles. It’s the story of how a new teacher shows a motley group of students in the inner city with backgrounds as gang members, dishwashers, and mechanics — the power of self-determination. He teaches the teenagers to believe in themselves through algebra and calculus.

Overall, Sand Castle was another lack luster war drama that will eventually fade into the many similar war dramas I have seen throughout my life.

The classic ghosts-in-revenge story expanded into an extensive dig into the historical social system while being funny and horny.

Telling a story about the French and Indian Wars from the perspective of the British prioritizes the perspective of the colonizers. 

This horror movie combines elements of horror and babysitting with Black representation.