Two elementary boys, who are best friends and baseball fanatics, had to be separated as one left Korea to pursue education abroad. Many years later after returning to Korea for high school, the boy had found his best friend to have only turned into a girl instead.
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.
Set against the backdrop of the Jim Crow era, the film offers layered representation.
People are so much deeper and far more extraordinary than what gender they were assigned at birth.
The makings of a great midseason filler episode that would connect in many different directions. This is a police drama filler with a guest director.
A 2022 remake of the previous films of the same name, but with a more diverse cast, increasing representation and diversity.
We, the Jane Austen aficionados, are suckers for everything and anything under the sun that’s remotely related to her and her world. That’s because we are so drawn to her unique style of fiction, romance, and social commentary, we take any allusion to her influence as a hint to what to expect when we start watching a movie or reading a book.
