Meadowlarks released in 2025 set in Canada
"Four siblings, torn apart by the Sixties Scoop, reunite for one week."
Heartbreaking but important to watch.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt35537918
(1/6)
#canadianhistory #firstnation #movie #greatmovie #cree #Wetsuweten
It takes the Iranian film The Circle 2000 to the next level.
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One woman sues for sexual harassment. The police tell her it's hard to do so unless a pig witnesses the act. Older family ask her to withdraw it to protect her reputation and avoid people hating on her for damaging Egypt's reputation.
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Male official says: I don't care about sexual harassment as long as I don't have a complaint.
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Claudia.
Chinese fill stereotyped roles in the film making the film racist.
white people are shown more humanely.
A white cashier says that Chinese people should be served separately and the white mum takes offense
Claudia asks why her parents did nothing
(3/5)
Just finished watching "The Last Class" about the last semester of @rbreich teaching at #UCBerkeley #GreatMovie #Teaching
https://open.substack.com/pub/robertreich/p/take-my-classroom-to-your-home
Tahar Rahim was the lead in the magnificent A Prophet 2009 in French Arabic and Corsican with subtitles. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt34273502
He's of Algerian origin.
Recently he starred and was impressive in Prisoner 2026 where the lead is the Black Woman Izuka Hoyle. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1235166
#movie #greatmovie #tv #blacktv #blackwomen #blackmastodon #arab
Black Adam 2022
A Black led movie includes #asian women fighting for their own
Has an asian movie ever done the same for asian women?
Ambulance 2022
Jake Gyllenhaal tells a pig that he has two guns pointed at him and later takes an ambulance hostage.
Nightcrawler 2014
Gyllenhaal chases ambulances and has a camera pointed at the victim(s)/action.
Lorne released in 2025
"Lorne Michaels, creator of Saturday Night Live (1975), offers unprecedented access to the man who built and sustained the institution for five decades."
"He takes 24 year olds really seriously in a way that a lot of people, maybe, wouldn't."
Audubon Ballroon (he/him)
Shaman