Author: Victoria Anders

“The Big Sick” is the deserving winner of my Film of the Summer award. A story built from Kumail Nanjiani’s true life story that bridges the binary between truth and fiction, the film gives the romantic comedy genre a brand-new go. The first hour or so consists of the gushy,

The Armenian Genocide—one of the many complex chapters of World War I, when the Ottoman Empire killed an estimated 1.5 million Armenians–has seemingly been forgotten, or at least untouched, by Hollywood. “The Promise” sought to change this pattern through a war-torn love triangle storyline, but missed the mark on capturing the

Based on Diane Ackerman’s 2007 nonfiction book, “The Zookeeper’s Wife” tells the true story of a Polish couple, Jan and Antonina Żabiński, who rescued around 300 Jews living in the Warsaw Ghetto from the Holocaust by sheltering and hiding them in their zoo. Some have called it “'Schindler’s List' with

I’ll be honest — I was quite worried going into the movie theater to see A United Kingdom over spring break after seeing the trailer and learning the background. A Hollywood film based on the true story not only of an interracial marriage in the 1940s, but a marriage between a Botswanan (then-Bechuanaland)

A little less than a year ago, soon after the 2016 Oscar nominations were announced, #OscarsSoWhite started trending on Twitter. None of the 20 nominees in four acting categories were people of color. One week later, the University of Southern California released a study that found an “epidemic of invisibility”