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She the People is a 16-episode Netflix sitcom released in two eight-episode batches on May 22 and August 14, 2025. Created by Tyler Perry and Niya Palmer, with executive producers Keisha Lance Bottoms and Terri J. Vaughn, the series follows Antoinette Dunkerson (Vaughn) as she makes history as Mississippi’s first Black lieutenant governor. Designed as half-hour episodes, it blends family comedy with political stakes, positioning Antoinette against Governor Harper’s anachronistic worldview.

Viewers meet her loud, loving clan—mother Cleo, cousin Shamika, driver Basil, and two teenage children—each demanding attention even as Antoinette strives to enact her agenda. The tone shifts from lighthearted chaos to pointed jabs at systemic obstacles, framing a public-service narrative through humor and heartfelt moments.

Political Premise and Satirical Elements

Mississippi’s practice of electing governor and lieutenant governor separately sets up a built-in power struggle: Antoinette, a Democrat backed by Jackson’s Black community, must collaborate...

Ready to catch the “Hangzhou New Wave” at the Beijing International Film Festival? If the term alone leaves you puzzled, the 15th edition of the fest, running April 18-26, has the perfect introduction for you. After all, it is presenting works by writer and director Zhu Xin in a “Filmmaker in Focus” program that describes him as “the young flag-bearer of the ‘Hangzhou New Wave’,” or Hangzhou New Cinema.

Plus, Beijing 2025 will feature more up-and-coming Chinese filmmaker voices in its “Chinese New Wave” program, which organizers tout as “an important platform for discovering and promoting young filmmakers.” This year’s lineup, they promise, showcases “the best works of various young Chinese filmmakers, sharing their cutting-edge perspectives and diverse expressions.”

Check out the lineup for the “Chinese New Wave” program below.

But what about Zhu Zin? Let’s start with some basics. Hangzhou is the capital of the Zhejiang province in...

Agnès Varda, the French director who helmed films including La Pointe Courte and Cleo from 5 to 7 and won an Honorary Oscar and multiple Cannes Film Festival awards, died Thursday evening due to complications from cancer. She was 90.

“She was surrounded by her family and friends,” the family said in a statement.

Despite ill health, she was at this year’s Berlin Film Festival, where she presented Varda by Agnès and received an award.

From her first film, La Pointe Courte in 1954, Varda’s style reflected elements of what would become the French New Wave although because she preceded that movement her work is more Left Bank in style. Her next feature, Cleo From 5 to 7, was a documentary style look at a singer awaiting results of a biopsy, which foreshadowed Varda’s fascination with human mortality. Her films also tended to focus on women and her subsequent Vagabond examined the investigation...