
Surya and his sister, Vidya, are orphans who are often mistreated by local ruffians. Years later, Surya grows up and becomes an honest police officer and sets off to find the killers of his guardian.
A young girl named Hailey Mays sings a country song that is named after the film's title.
The film seems like an extreme interpretation of the conspiracy theorists that exist in real life. And then, there’s the twist.
The latest installment in the beloved media franchise is a unique stylized mesh of humor and heart.
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.
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.