【推荐1】The following films are several good sci-fi movies.

The Adam Project

The Adam Project follows Adam,a time-traveling pilot from 2050 who gets stranded (滞留) in 2022 while pursuing a mission. There, he meets his 12-year-old self, and the two Adams must work together to accomplish older Adam’s objective: get back to 2018 to save his wife’s life. But time travel makes things challenging. The director is Shawn Levy and the movie lasts 106 minutes.

After Yang

Directed by Kogonada, the movie After Yang, which lasts 96 minutes, is a deeply moving exploration of memory. Jake and Kyra have provided their adopted daughter Mika with an android (机器人) brother named Yang. When Yang stops functioning, Jake promises Mika he will have her “brother” back to normal. But as they go through Yang’s memory bank, Jake and Kyra make several major discoveries about Yang’s painful past and the true depths of his soul.

Belle

Lonely teenager Suzu leads another life in the virtual world known as “U”. There, she’s a famous singer named Belle. After a concert is violently ruined by a user known as the Dragon, Belle sets out to find him. As she soon discovers, they both have trouble in their real lives they need to overcome. Belle runs 121 minutes and is directed by Mamoru Hosoda.

Brian and Charles

One day, mild-mannered inventor Brian creates a robot. After a storm brings this robot to life, it calls itself

Charles and develops a keen interest in everything the world has to offer. An unlikely friendship appears as Charles grows more and more human. At a period of 90 minutes, Brian and Charles directed by Jim Archer offers a pleasant story.

【推荐2】“It is with quiet pleasure that we announce our soft reopening of the rebuilt, renewed, reborn Sag Harbor Cinema,” stated a news release, on April 9, 2021. It added, “but this date should not be misconstrued as our grand reopening.”

The Sag Harbor Cinema has been dark since the building had a fire in December 2016. Over the past few years, the cinema has been undergoing a $20 million renovation, including the purchase of the building. During the COVID-19 shutdown, the cinema held sneak-peek tours of the new facility.

“It’s been a long and challenging road to get to this moment,” the cinema’s chair, April Gornik, said in a statement. “But at long last, we are thrilled to be able to open our doors to Sag Harbor, to welcome you back to your new cinema — masked and distanced, of course.”

The reopening begins with a series of Academy Award-nominated films. “Nomadland,” featuring Frances McDormand as a woman who lives out of her van, is a best picture nominee. “Wolfwalkers,” a fantasy inspired by Irish folklore, earned an Oscar nomination for best animated feature. “French Exit” earned Michelle Pfeiffer a Golden Globe nomination. Also playing will be three programs of Oscar-nominated short films — live action, animated and documentary.

“Our vision is always an extremely hopeful one that cinema has a fundamental role to play in our lives,” Hook said. “We hope people remember that it’s not just about what’s going on before your eyes, it’s about experiencing something with other people.”

【推荐1】Life has a way of shaping us. Life can make you doubt or question your purpose.    1    . I have seen this in my own life.

Poetry prepared me for my purpose. I did not see this initially, so I tried taking a different direction.    2    . I finally left behind my failures and fully launched into my destiny.

In my journey towards purpose, poetry became my safety net. Poetry was my outlet from bullying by peers, which gave me low self-esteem.    3    . For every important moment in my life, I wrote poetry. During tough times, I wrote poetry. I connect with poetry on a deep level.

However, writing poetry lacks financial stability.    4    . In America, I was an assistant teacher for kindergarten. When living in China, my job was an English teacher. The work I did was similar. I inspired children, giving them my love, my time and my heart. Still, poetry brought me joy.    5    .

Where you are is preparing you for your purpose. Your purpose is waiting for you!

【推荐2】Born on the 24th of June, 1987, Lionel Andres Messi Cuccittini is a world-famous professional football player who played for Barcelona FC and is also the captain of the Argentine National Team. Messi is often believed to be one of the best footballers playing today and he won the 2022 World Cup title with Argentina last year.

Messi was not born in a well-off family. His father was a worker in a steel factory and his mother worked part time as a cleaner. Messi had been fascinated by the sport at a very early age and joined his first club at the age of five. Unfortunately, at the age of eleven, Messi was diagnosed with having a deficiency of growth hormones（生长激素缺乏症）and his treatment to overcome the situation would require about $900 a month. While many local clubs and teams had shown a lot of interest in Messi, nobody was willing to shell out the expenses for his treatment.

However, this young boy had already managed to raise a number of eyebrows with his perfect skills and his immense talent with the ball. His strength and determination shone through on the field and he was noticed by the sporting director of Barcelona FC,   who offered him a contract on a paper napkin to join the club. He also assured him that if he moved to Spain in order to pursue a football career, the club would pay for all his medical expenses. Messi accepted the contract and moved on to Spain. Ever since that incident, Messi has gained a lot of love from football fans all over the world.

Even after becoming one of the biggest stars in the sport, Messi has not forgotten the difficult times. Consequently, in 2007,he established the Leo Messi Foundation which is to provide healthcare and also education to poor and vulnerable（脆弱的）children. Messi is surely a very inspirational figure who has made it big on the basis of his determination and skill and has combatted a difficult past to come out on top.

【推荐3】When I was 10, I was always joked by my fellow Co-Curricular Activities (CCA) mates, including John. Words were like, “Dick is the best player in the CCA! He only knows how to play ‘Mary had a Little Lamb’ on the trumpet (小号)!”

Once, the moment I left the school, I took out my earpiece, listening to recordings like a broken recorder. I got so engrossed (专注) that I didn’t see the wall in front and fell on the ground. Luckily for me, a passer-by saw what had happened and immediately called the ambulance. When I woke up in the hospital, however, the nurse told me that I suffered severe leg injuries. I could have stopped practicing but that was not what I wanted. I wanted to practice even in the hospital. “One leg injury would not stop me; it would only make me feel more motivated,” I replied to the nurse.

That was a hard period of my life. If I had not been careless, I would not have this problem. Yet if I haven’t gotten myself into this problem, I would not be as motivated and would not have that experience teaching me a life lesson. My parents and my best friend had come to give me emotional support, telling me what had happened during CCA today and advising me on how to become a better player. After day-and-night hard practice, I finally perfected and went back to my CCA.

On the selection day itself, the conductor praised me and asked how I had improved so much. I explained that it was because of my determination, my family and my friends. The conductor then said that I was a role model and that the whole band should follow my motivation and practice instead of being like John. This experience made me what I am today. Currently, I am the best player and the head of the secondary school military band.