SILENCED (2025)

Amanda Riley gets the opportunity to travel to Vietnam for the experience of a lifetime.

The film reminds us to remember the people who had the courage and dignity that had made the world better, even when the memory was absent.

When the world lost Chadwick Boseman on August 28, 2020, we all saw the impact of representation in film. Boseman was not only a Black superhero leading a Black cast in one of the most successful films in history; but his successes paved the way for more, long-overdue diversity in Hollywood.

This story solidified my choices to consume a more plant-based diet and nearly made me cancel my subscriptions to big corporations like Amazon. The narrative was perfectly crafted and on par with Bong Joon-Ho’s other major works; Parasite and Snowpiercer.

Based on a true story, when his beloved dog goes missing, the owner embarks on an incredible search with his parents to find him.

'Playing with Fire' was clearly a film made for a kid or tween-ish audience. Keeping that in mind, I thought 'Playing with Fire' was alright, though it did portray some harmful stereotypes.