RIZIN 17 live from the Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan. In the evening’s main event, lightweights Yusuke Yachi and Mikuru Asakura lock horns. Also the card, numerous UFC veterans are in action as Ulka Sasaki takes on longtime veteran Shintaro Ishiwatari, Ultimate Fighter 24 runner-up Hiromasa Ogikubo clashes with Yuki Motoya, Johnny Case challenges Satoru Kitaoka, Tatsuya Kawajiri battles unbeaten Russian Ali Abdulkhalikov, Mizuto Hirota faces off with grappling ace Roberto de Souza, and UFC veteran and current ROAD FC champion Seo Hee Ham meets Tomo Maesawa.
This Transgender Day of Remembrance, let us take a look at six films about transgender children grappling with their identity in a heteronormative world that despises their kind and tries its best to invalidate their feelings.
Why did Māhū, a term once respected in Hawaiian culture, become so controversial?
Leveraging the cockiness of many of his interview subjects, Theroux created an exposing documentary that shows just how scary these sections of the internet can be.
Pressure is an unambiguously great movie, lead by convincing performances, a well-crafted script, good direction, and at least some social awareness.
Sorry to Bother You ultimately speaks to the unfair advantages that the country’s power structures award to those with the resources to control others, as Lift’s easy access to the media allows his opinion to be the only one that matters in the eyes of the unsuspecting and easily impressed public. Moreover, it reveals the extent to which the American Dream has any true validity. It postulates how the promise of success and fulfillment as promoted by the American Dream more often than not leads to the undoing of the individual. Interestingly, in its revealing of the American Dream as merely a facade, Sorry to Bother You wisely questions whether or not anything can really be done to undo a system that has been accepted and in action for centuries.
