The Beautiful Confusion (2025)

Poor Black characters are usually surrounded by crime and violence, while poor White characters are portrayed as noble and hard-working.

Stand and Deliver is an inspirational classic from 1988 starring Edward James Olmos as Jaime Escalante, and his class of rag tag students in East Los Angeles. It’s the story of how a new teacher shows a motley group of students in the inner city with backgrounds as gang members, dishwashers, and mechanics — the power of self-determination. He teaches the teenagers to believe in themselves through algebra and calculus.

One thing’s for certain: Holmes has star power. We may not be able to see everything, but we’re certainly all watching. 

KIMI is the main character of this film and as much as I wish it was Angela Childs played by Zoe Kravitz, it isn't. KIMI is a smart device that works not unlike Amazon's Alexa and Google's Nest assisting in anything from home purchases to music playing all under the guise of only activating when in use.

How powerful can a story be when it is stripped to the bare essentials of just a room, a handful of people and raw human voice?

Steven Spielberg's West Side Story (2021) improves on the original's terrible representation, poorly written romance, and more. --> check out reviews & film summary