Schulmädchen '84 

This current year, as well as the past several, has seen a slowly building increase in something the horror genre has required for quite a while in this critic's opinion...originality. I've stated before that I am very hard to please when it comes to this vein of the film industry's offerings, always leaning more towards that which sends chills through my very being in lieu of buckets of blood and gore.

In The Novelist's Film, Hong explores the meaningful things people share and inspire by virtue of simply engaging with one another.

How closely should film adaptations follow their source material? Let's take a deep dive into "Norma Rae", and find out.

Shadow & Bone excels in natural story representation with powerful centering of culture. Jessie Mei Li stars as Alina Starkov, the feisty cartographer with kindness, innocence, and integrity, who comes to be revealed as the legendary summoner of light.

The quiet ache of guilt sitting at the dinner table, the silence after a truth is buried, and the way pain is passed down like a name.

An incredible documentary showcasing the difficulties of living in a crumbling Rust Belt city.