Does “Last Week Tonight” Count As Taking A Break From Watching The News?
Acutely funny and always well-intentioned, Last Week Tonight has a lot of heart for a satirical-news program.

Transwomen consider the Milk Function their most important Ritual. They also celebrate the ritual as their life-time unique festival. So what is the Milk Function? This documentary describes the ritual and explore its celebrations and traditions.
Acutely funny and always well-intentioned, Last Week Tonight has a lot of heart for a satirical-news program.
Sweetheart provides a stark example of self-isolation taken to its extreme.
These confines won’t really encourage you to read the film as a metaphor for the nerve-inducing experience we’ve all been through over the last year, however — and in the interest of maintaining your dignity, you probably shouldn’t. While the sociopolitical commentary may have worked for the similarly-themed Buried (2010), in which we find Ryan Reynolds on his own buried alive in the Middle East, but this futuristic take on the premise is best left as a piece of distracting entertainment. Nevertheless, the atmosphere is no less suffocating, literally and dramatically.
This documentary moves chronologically through Black representation in horror films, revealing the genre's connections to Black history.
A sweet slice-of-life anime that visualizes all the ways we creatively hide our vulnerabilities from the world.
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.