“Terrace House”: The Kinder, Gentler Japanese Alternative to Reality TV
"Terrace House" improves on the standard reality TV format by affording its cast privacy, freedom, and respect.

Her busy father is never there. Jane often feels alone in sunny California and longs for her Scottish homeland. When she learns that her father has apparently intercepted all of her grandmother's letters, she immediately packs her bags and travels to Scotland. She is looking forward to seeing her cousin Sinclair again - but he has turned into a ruthless egoist ...
"Terrace House" improves on the standard reality TV format by affording its cast privacy, freedom, and respect.
Acutely funny and always well-intentioned, Last Week Tonight has a lot of heart for a satirical-news program.
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.
The film exhibits a respect for the craft and an empathy for human tribulations that have historically been ignored.
With so many Disney remakes out and about in the world and loosed upon Hollywood cinema, there is one Disney film that truly needs to be seen and witnessed on the big screen: Princess and the Frog.
Given Hollywood's history of racism and financial motivations, how much progress can we expect? Plus: a list of excellent films by Black directors.