Rickie Lee Jones ‎– Live At The Wiltern Theatre (1999)

The three themes of lessons learned from HBO Max's Station Eleven are the same as the pandemic: love, regret, and art.

"Marriage Story" is a narrow-minded and heavy-handed attempt to examine the complexity of human relationships.

These confines won’t really encourage you to read the film as a metaphor for the nerve-inducing experience we’ve all been through over the last year, however — and in the interest of maintaining your dignity, you probably shouldn’t. While the sociopolitical commentary may have worked for the similarly-themed Buried (2010), in which we find Ryan Reynolds on his own buried alive in the Middle East, but this futuristic take on the premise is best left as a piece of distracting entertainment. Nevertheless, the atmosphere is no less suffocating, literally and dramatically.

We have a long way to go with LGBT representation in film, especially when it comes to LGBT characters of color and trans characters.

Four documentaries, now streaming on the Criterion Channel, embody the adopted slogan of the current protest movement: Woman, Life, Freedom