Hidden Figures makes you laugh, cry, rage, and smile all at once. I love the way they used intersectionality throughout the film. To exist as a black woman means you experience racism and sexism differently and more severely. Black men were able to get certain jobs because they still enjoyed the privilege of being male. White women were able to have secure jobs at NASA because even though they were women, they were still white. Black women in this movie…

CitizenFour is one of those documentaries that leaves you with an eerie feeling that keeps you looking over your shoulder for the rest of the day. It follows Edward Snowden, a former NSA agent, a team of reporters who are hell bent on exposing the invasive surveillance practices of the NSA. One day, Ed just packed up his life and disappeared to Hong Kong, China without telling anybody in his life so that he could pull the curtain back and…

This film takes place in the 1970s in the middle of the Vietnam War and centers around The Washington Post's decision to publish The Pentagon Papers or not. The decision to publish would expose the US' 30 year involvement in Vietnam; and cause massive complications personally and legally for our main character and owner of The Post, Kay Graham, expertly played by Meryl Streep. As striking as that story is, that is not what the film is about. It is…

The Report was a very well done film that exposed the CIAs abhorrent and unnecessary torture tactics they used on POWs in a post 9/11 world. This film was deeply disturbing as it showed sometimes graphic examples of torture that the CIA covertly conducted using tax payer dollars--and then they all got promoted. The film follows Daniel Jones (played by Adam Driver) as he spends 5 years poring over millions of CIA documents to compile a report exposing the organization.…