Vanity Fair: Humbugs, Fools and Othered Visions

Based on the 1848 novel by William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair is set against Victorian London and the Napoleonic Wars, following Becky Sharp (Olivia Cooke) in her attempt to elevate herself out of poverty into English High Society. It’s “a vain, wicked, foolish place” narrates Michael Palin,…

BlacKkKlansman: Rebirth Of A Nation

Based on the 2014 memoir Black Klansman by the real Ron Stallworth, co-written and directed by Spike Lee (She Gotta Have It), and co-produced by Jordan Peele (Get Out), BlacKkKlansman offers an insight at race relations in America today in 2018 and back in the 1970s, and…

Netflix’s Sierra Burgess Is A Loser

Sierra, played by Shannon Purser (Barbara in Stranger Things) is intelligent but unpopular and wants to go to Stanford University. She doesn’t fit traditional beauty standards but she’s witty and charming. Mean girl Veronica (Kristine Froseth) does her utmost to ruin Sierra’s life with verbal bullying,…