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Coda Introduction Coda is Siân Heder’s brilliant film about Ruby, a Child Of Deaf Adults (CODA), and her family, as she struggles to balance her responsibilities helping out the family and pursuing her dream of singing. Coda may seem like your traditional coming-of-age film and possesses the same beats and elements that we have all seen before, but it has a unique twist to it. In the hands of the wrong filmmaker, the themes and subject matter discussed in the film could have been handled disrespectfully and even inappropriately. However, in the hands of Siân Heder and the insanely talented ensemble cast, Coda beautifully enlightens the audience about the deaf community and allows us to gain a deeper knowledge about the community. Coda manages to capture the beauty of family and music, the struggles and perseverance of youth, all the while maintaining faithful to its roots of being a film about the deaf community - their struggles, hardships, and their beauty and uniqueness.  An Explora

Barbarian - The Decade's Best Horror Film So Far Introduction Barbarian, directed by Zach Gregger, is a film that you really have to know very little about before you see it, so I will make this review short and sweet, and be as vague as I can be. For the sake of ambiguity, I shall lift the synopsis from IMDB - A young woman discovers the rental home she booked is already occupied by a stranger. And I shall leave you with just that amount of information about the film.   For years, I have been hoping for a horror film that would, again, truly shake me to my core. To truly give me the creeps and the chills down my spine. Many mediocre films later, it seems that I have finally found what i was looking for. Barbarian is an excellently directed, terrifically well-acted, original horror film with claustrophobic tension and great scares throughout its runtime. It’s a story that twists and turns, never truly letting you know what exactly is going on until it all eventually comes to light