A social and cultural testimony of Paraguayan peasant life (in the indigenous language of Paraguay: the Guarani), its subsistence problems, the emigration of family members, their struggles for the recognition of their rights, their relationship with nature and their hopes. This testimony corresponds to the shared experience with the Ramos Gómez family, resident of Cordillerita Costa, Ybycuí, Department of Paraguarí, 120 kms. of the capital Asunción, on April 20, 2008, national election day.
If you haven’t watched Good Trouble yet, you need to. This Foster’s spinoff, aptly named for civil rights champion and Congressman, John Lewis, follows Mariana and Callie Adams Foster as they begin a new chapter of young adulthood and navigate life, careers, social justice, and love.
This current year, as well as the past several, has seen a slowly building increase in something the horror genre has required for quite a while in this critic's opinion...originality. I've stated before that I am very hard to please when it comes to this vein of the film industry's offerings, always leaning more towards that which sends chills through my very being in lieu of buckets of blood and gore.
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.
The film reminds us to remember the people who had the courage and dignity that had made the world better, even when the memory was absent.
An animated short film that never gets old, especially with iconic characters from the Disney series.
America is the crux of the storyline: she is the only person in existence with the power to jump between universes. As central as America is to the Multiverse of Madness story, she somehow didn’t get that much to do.
