The Hottie & The Nottie (2008)

I hadn’t heard of it either until recently—and yet, it’s one of the highest grossing movies of all time.

Even without the messaging, Mercy does not hold up as a movie. It's sloppily done and the mystery doesn’t tie together at the end.

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.

If you enjoy the bizarre, silly and entertaining world of the horror B-movies and want a break from the nuanced and poignant big budget horror releases, I have a list of gore-fests from the last ten years to enjoy this October.

Sisters Mia and Emma discover and hunt down a unicorn with magical blood and want to protect it.

Set against the backdrop of the Jim Crow era, the film offers layered representation.