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Joker is a compelling, character-driven, psychological tale that has a message behind the madness.

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

The iconic title character stars in her own horror and gothic TV series.

It only seems to prove that when the company had their backs against the wall and needed an all pleasing, generic movie that had to make up for The Last Jedi, they chose to sacrifice almost everything that made their main protagonist interesting and that made her stand out as the strong female character that a generation of young movie goers was supposed to look up to. Instead, we were left with a Rey that was so much less than she could have been. And I guess that’s the real story of Rey and The Rise of Skywalker; they could have been so much more, but they were just more of the same.

Ester Shapiro who flees the only home she has ever known to start a new life in Berlin.

"La Noria" deftly subverts audience expectations as it explores childhood grief, anxieties, and pain. The award-winning short shows us that often our monsters are often sprung from our darkest places.