As a candid interview carries on between the country's leading virologist and a no-nonsense journalist, a couple separated between continents play catch up while a pandemic rages across the globe.
Russ Emanuel
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Grace Baxter
Kelli Maroney
Cynthia Oxford
Laurene Landon
Tabitha Musgraves
Tracee Cocco
Diandra Walsh
Dustin Clingan
Dexter Riley
Ed Vela
Declan
Eileen Dietz
Griselda E. Necromancer
Shawn C. Phillips
Rudy Ledbetter
Crystal J. Huang
Suying Li
Bill Victor Arucan
Rob Peterson
Rémy Robert
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I write for a diversity-focused film review blog, so I’ll be honest: I really wanted to like Pretty Lethal. Starring Maddie Ziegler, Lana Condor, Iris Apatow, Avantika, and Millicent Simmonds, Amazon Prime’s new thriller seemed like it would be a girl power movie about dancers with a horror action twist. Sort of a Suspiria for teens. But with shallow and unlikeable characters, a confusing plot, an overreliance on violence, and cringey dialogue, any fun the movie started out with was quickly lost. What was left was a faint echo of greater horror movies about dancers made before.
An Indonesian film that brings strong representation of Asian descent in this heart-warming tale of a woman and her dog.
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In Jeymes Samuel's history-infused, neo-spaghetti western, Black women are center stage with a fresh hip hop mixtape keeping rhythm in the backdrop.