During the pandemic, Lisa Peers wanted to write a story that featured a happy ending and romance. That's how "Love at 350°" came to be.

“Strange Way of Life” (Sony Pictures Classics) is gay, Spanish, filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar’s second English-language short feature following 2020's “The Human Voice.” It’s so thoroughly different from anything that Almodóvar has done previously that, even though it’s only 31 minutes long, it may take viewers longer to process than anything else in his oeuvre.

Since joining The Real Housewives of New Jersey in Season 9, we have got to see fan favorite Jackie Goldschneider go toe to toe with fellow Housewives, and displaying a fearlessness about who she was going up against. What many didn’t realize is that behind the scenes, Jackie was in the throes of an eating disorder that was consuming her on and off-camera life. In her captivating new book The Weight of Beautiful, Jackie details her life and weaves in not just how she lived with an eating disorder daily, but how it started to take over her entire life.

The ability to stream movies and the availability of a wide variety of films on cable channels has no doubt brought the art and craft of filmmaking to more people than ever before. However, there is nothing to compare to the magic of watching a movie screened bigger than life in a theater setting, where anywhere from dozens to hundreds of people are all experiencing the same thrills, intrigue, comedy, or drama.

Del Shores’ “black comedy about white trash,” “Sordid Lives,” gets a new production by producer/director Larry Buzzeo and his ArtBuzz Theatrics company through Oct. 22 at the intimate Empire Stage in Fort Lauderdale.

You will never settle. And why should you? If it's not right, you make it right. If it can be better, well, then get at it. You find the solution or you go on to the next thing because good enough is never good enough. As in the new book "Bayard Rustin," essays edited by Michael G. Long, there's always work to do and good trouble.