Month: August 2021
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‘Easy A’ Is Pretty Anti Sex
‘Easy A’ is emblematic of a world that liked to sarcastically pretend it was progressive but wasn’t actually ready for that change, making it pretty anti-sex.
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Erik Was Right: Revisiting Magneto In a Post-Killmonger World
Well, I guess Marvel is back. After throwing its hat into the television ring with miniseries Wandavision, Falcon and the Winter Soldier, and Loki, the superhero media assembly line has returned to the silver screen with Black Widow. So is this a review of the long-overdue solo feature for the only woman in the comic…
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The Best Shots of the Heavy Metal Documentary, ‘The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years’
The film is a documentary focusing on heavy metal in the late 80s and tackles topics like drug addiction, alcoholism, sex, masculinity, and of course, rock and roll. However, this didn’t feel like any documentary I’ve ever seen before.
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Wait, Did ‘The Green Knight’ Need To Be That White?
Why is ‘The Green Knight’ so white? People of color are so removed from the origins of 13th century art. We’re looking toward the future, and part of that should be updating aspects of our stories to mirror those evolutions.
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‘Legally Blonde’ Was a Woke Feminist Comedy — Then It Kind of Wasn’t
‘Legally Blonde’ remains a standard of feminist filmmaking over two decades after its release, although its poor treatment of racial and sexual minorities make it a product of its time.
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‘Little Boxes’ Had Good Intentions, But…
In ‘Little Boxes,” an interracial family moves to an all-white town where they face the judgement of others who have never been exposed to people of color before.