Livi's Corner Presents:

Act Two: Women in Cinematic Transition

June Feature: Thelma

What if your fourth act wasn't about slowing down?

What if it was about taking your power back?

This month, we're talking about Thelma, a funny, tender, and surprisingly radical story about aging, independence, and refusing to let the world decide what you're capable of.

Because growing older isn't the end of the story.

Sometimes it's the moment you stop asking for permission.

Join me as we explore resilience, family, dignity, and the quiet rebellion of continuing to choose yourself.

Act Two: Women in Cinematic Transition June Episode: Thelma

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PBS Hour returns with a double feature billing and first up is before prestige television became a streaming empire, PBS treated literature like sacred text.

From Austen and Dickens to the Brontës and modern revivals like The Count of Monte Cristo, Episode 8 of PBS Hour explores how public television turned books into living, breathing emotional experiences.

These weren’t rushed adaptations.

They lingered.

They trusted us to feel.

Corsets, class politics, longing, revenge, and women quietly dismantling entire systems with a single look across a ballroom.

PBS didn’t just adapt books. It opened the door to worlds many of us never thought belonged to us.

New episode of PBS Hour streaming now via Livi’s Corner.

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And next in this double feature is Episode 9 as I dive into Independent Lens and POV the PBS documentary space.

From criminal justice and labor to immigration, caregiving, and survival, these films didn’t just document systems.

They documented what it feels like to live inside them.

Featuring:

▪️ Always in Season

▪️ We Are the Radical Monarchs

PBS Hour is a love letter to the stories that refused to disappear.

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Well, this is what we've been waiting for. A box office so on fire that we were anticipating a huge year for our beloved and resilient movie industry.

May’s Act Two Episode dances into Season 6 with Gloria Bell. A tale of a dancing queen finding her stride in a menopausal life. Gloria, played gorgeously by Julianne Moore, waltzes a story of a search for balance but not in the conditioned sense.

This episode also reflects on the passing of my mom, and how…she built a legacy without knowing it

So, grab a mocktail, cocktail, or some tea and come dance with me dance💃🏽💃🏽💃🏽

Act Two: The Girlhood Trinity

This April, and we're chatting about the Trinity of Girlhood, Akeelah and the Bee, The Secret Life of Bees, and Turning Red.

So, sit back, nab your snacks and enjoy!

Some voices never needed to shout to be heard.

This week on PBS Hour, we honor the quiet authority of PBS NewsHour — and the journalists who made truth feel steady, not sensational.

From the brilliance of Gwen Ifill to the generational trust of Judy Woodruff, this episode reflects on what happens when journalism chooses clarity over chaos.

Because sometimes, the most powerful news… is delivered with care.

PBS Hour: Episode 7 — “News for the People”

Now streaming on Livi’s Corner.

Welp, 2025 came and went with so much to offer us cinephiles that we're just in a tizzy over films like Train Dreams, One Battle After Another, and of course Sinners

So, I just had to add my two cents to the tab, lol!

In this episode, I do a skimming over this year's Academy Awards Nominations List, a fitting a precursor to the big show coming March 15th.

In this week in reviews, I give a take on both Pillion and The Importance of Being Earnest. films that are totally on different side of the spectrum. One being a classic work of theatrical art, and being offered through the National Theater Live Program, and the other finally crossing the Atlantic to deliver one of the highest rated erotic films eva! Both stimulating, and both well worth the wait.

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