Obesity is not well-represented on television. In general, characters on the small screen tend to conform to the conventional definition of beauty. Studies show that this lack of representation of a specific body type can translate into harassment towards overweight people.…
Has watching a movie ever changed the way you look at a problem? Have you ever approached a situation differently or been able to take a step back from something going on in your life due to a movie? Watching movies…
On March 8, a massive group of women went out to the streets with their feminist message. That day, those women made history. Nothing will be the same after that day. Those women decided to speak out because they all experience…
Psychopathology has been very present in films. An endless number of movies have told us stories related to psychologists, psychiatrists, and above all, people who suffer from mental disorders. Even when the plot line isn’t directly related to psychopathology, psychology…
Why choose to live like a beggar when you have everything? Why give up every luxury and comfort to live like a savage? Perhaps you just want to live, in the strictest sense of the word. Be alive, eat to…
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri is a powerful movie about all the anger and desperation within pain. In this movie, it’s a mother’s pain. Mildred Hayes puts up three billboards in her town to speak out against the police’s ineffectiveness after her…
Inception is an American science-fiction movie from 2010. It was written, produced, and directed by Christopher Nolan, a British filmmaker known for the psychological themes in his movies. Inception brings us into the world of dreams, the subconscious, and the way traumas project…
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996), despite being a Disney movie, has a dark plot that can be difficult to process. I don’t mean a “dark” happiness like The Nightmare Before Christmas, nor the terrifying darkness of The Black Cauldron,…
Titanic is one the best known blockbuster movies of all time. Its success was so grand that it became an epidemic. Everybody competed to see who went to the movie theater to see it the most.
Transsexuality is a controversial and taboo subject that remained in the shadows for too long. Its normalization is proving a very slow and hard path for transsexual people. It seems that there are fewer and fewer prejudices towards homosexuals. Now,…
January 22nd was the 10 year anniversary of actor Heath Ledger’s death. He died young, at age 28, but left us an interesting cinematographic legacy. He was in Casanova, Monster’s Ball, Brokeback Mountain, The Dark Knight, and The Imaginarium of Doctor…
Meryl Streep is an amazing actress. She has also proven that she’s a remarkable woman. She rakes in success and gains followers everywhere she goes. She’s a mysterious, level-headed woman. She makes a permanent mark on Hollywood and her followers’ hearts.…
Frozen, Ratatouille, Despicable Me, Finding Nemo. Children watch the same movie over and over again without getting tired and without hardly even blinking. For them any time is a good time to ask for it and watch it, hypnotized, and ecstatic…
Most of us seem to like being afraid, as long as it’s a controlled situation. We like it as long as there’s no actual danger, and it’s more of an adrenaline rush than actual terror. Horror movies a great way…
The term eating disorder includes a lot of different disorders related to the way someone with one eats. They usually happen for a variety of psychological reasons and vary by type. We can probably all think of some of those reasons pretty…
Collateral Beauty was a movie that came out in 2016 and was directed by David Frankel. The movie was highly anticipated and had an amazing cast. Just a few of the notable actors are Edward Norton, Kate Winslet, Helen Mirren, Will Smith,…
If we want to create a society where we can all live in peace and harmony, animal abuse can’t be part of it. The fact is that we can all do our part in giving animals more quality of life. It’s…
The relationship between the Joker and Harley Quinn is one of the best known in animation and comics. They’re the two antagonists in Batman, but so charismatic that people have fallen in love with them. The two are fundamental in…
A film almost completely set in one room and with just four actors doesn’t sound very appealing. But Carnage surprisingly turns out to be a quite magnificent parody of everyday life. Roman Polanski’s film is an adaptation of the play…
Friendship is just as important to our health as eating a healthy diet, exercising or meditating. Friends are the people who challenge us to be better, who help carry our load when we need a boost. They are the ones…
