Sugarcane Directed by Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie (National Geographic, 2024) A searing indictment of institutional abuse perpetrated against First...
TV and film
For those who dedicate their lives to serving others, reality television often feels far removed from their daily experiences. If your work involves providing...
Flow Directed by Gints Zilbalodis (Dream Well Studio, 2024) There were parts of Flow that made me cuddle my 3-month-old black kitten a little tighter. The main...
Comedian Mohammed (Mo) Amer released the second season of his self-titled show Mo on Netflix at the end of January. The comedy show, loosely based on Amer’s...
When two friends hang out for 30 years, writing jokes and sketches, trading emails, smoking cigars, and earning Emmys—what happens when one of them comes out...
A Man on the Inside Created by Michael Schur (Netflix, 2024) A few minutes into A Man on the Inside, it becomes clear that the series’s creator, Michael Schur...
Millions of people all over the world would probably be eager to sit at the feet of Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates, basking in his brilliance. That may be why...
When I sat down to watch Jon Chu’s film adaptation of Stephen Schwartz’s smash-hit musical Wicked, I expected to be captivated—and I was. Having seen the...
In September 2002, on the one-year anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, I was 10 years old, living in New York, and full of frightened questions about...
Uzumaki: Spiral into Horror Directed by Hiroshi Nagahama & Yuji Moriyama (Adult Swim, 2024) It only took five years in development, but the anime...
