It Goes all the Way to the Top: Motherless Brooklyn
'Motherless Brooklyn' is a 1950s whodunit made by its star, Edward Norton. Like most detective films in this setting, the cast is mostly white males (with a few notable exceptions).

Pig Earth traces a sequence of conditions through which consciousness emerges, organises, and ultimately fractures under its own weight. It follows the slow organisation of mind from instinct into structure, from structure into consciousness, only for this awareness to rupture, turning back upon the organism that hosts it. If evolution tends toward efficiency, then consciousness appears excessive. If it tends toward survival, then consciousness appears compromised. The conscious animal becomes the animal that hesitates, the animal that suffers its own awareness, the animal for whom existence is no longer given but must be continually reckoned with. In this sense, consciousness may be less a culmination than a misstep: not the enlightenment of the organism, but its undoing.
'Motherless Brooklyn' is a 1950s whodunit made by its star, Edward Norton. Like most detective films in this setting, the cast is mostly white males (with a few notable exceptions).
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.
For those that are unaware, the trailer for the new Civil Rights movie Till has been out and it's absolutely amazing for all to see.
The film's storylines read as allegories for the queer experience and that's a source of solace for LGBTQIA+ fans!
I didn’t love Expecting Amy, the mini-series following Amy Schumer’s pregnancy, but it brought up a lot of great unspoken side-effects of working and growing a human in America.