Skater Girl – Sisterhood, Rebelliousness, Social Castes, and Skateboarding
This little Netflix film was very inspirational. It passes the Bechdel test, and features a different worldview with rural Indian representation.

In an exclusive club called "The Pink”, writer and mom-to-be Riley has a chance to join the “boss babe” culture. With dermatologists at your beck and call, decked-out work stations — and you can bring your kids too? Riley can’t pass this up, but she isn’t sure she can afford it or fits in. When she meets Star, founder of The Pink, she’s reassured that there’s no catch, but can Riley really trust this too-good-to-be-true situation?
This little Netflix film was very inspirational. It passes the Bechdel test, and features a different worldview with rural Indian representation.
Unfortunately, People We Meet on Vacation didn’t hold up quite as well as I’d hoped.
We, the Jane Austen aficionados, are suckers for everything and anything under the sun that’s remotely related to her and her world. That’s because we are so drawn to her unique style of fiction, romance, and social commentary, we take any allusion to her influence as a hint to what to expect when we start watching a movie or reading a book.
The film is bogged down with one-off rain monster threats that always come to a quick and undramatic end
I hope that more people will see Joyland, understand the situation, and eventually change themselves and society so we can have a more accommodating world where everyday tragedies like the one depicted in the film do not occur.
This 2016 winner of an Ophir Award for Best Film focuses on the forbidden romance of a young, Bedouin woman and the ramifications it has for her family, her identity, and her culture.