Author: Allie Posner
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Okja (2017) Review
Okja, Bong Joon-Ho’s 2017 masterpiece, is a satire on corporate greed and comments on animal cruelty with a very diverse perspective. The film takes place in a post-modern world where The Mirando Company has genetically modified giant pigs and placed them with farmers around the world to see what farming techniques will rear the best…
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Bad Trip- But an Excellent Comedy
Eric Andre’s new prank comedy film, Bad Trip, has me daydreaming about experiencing this level of performance art and comedy in my daily life and wishing more than anything that I could have been one of the extras in this film. Eric Andre created a mixture of scripted buddy comedy and hidden camera prank comedy…
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Happy Passover! Jewish Representation in Unorthodox
Mini-Series Unorthodox gives audiences a glimpse into the Orthodox Jewish community of Williamsburg, Brooklyn. We get to specifically follow a young woman named Ester Shapiro who, after being married off and forced to procreate with a man she doesn’t love, flees the only home she has ever known to start a new life in Berlin.…
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Transgender Representation in Pose- Season 1
“Live, work, POSE!!!” Netflix recently added Pose by Ryan Murphy to their streaming and I watched the whole first season for the first time last week. While we can all recognize that Ryan Murphy has made a lot of not-so-great work, he certainly got it right with Pose. Netflix recently made a $300 million…
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Uncle Frank’: Acceptance and Queer Representation
About a year ago, Amazon Prime released Uncle Frank, and I do not believe it has been talked about enough considering how much time we have all had to watch movies. Set in the 1970s, Frank Bledsoe (Paul Bettany) encourages his niece Beth (Sophia Lillis) to get out of their small hometown and see how…
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‘Moxie!’- Amy Poehler’s Attempt at Feminist Film
Moxie, based on the novel by Jennifer Mathieu and directed by the excellent Amy Poehler takes on intersectional feminism in a way that seems inspired by pop-culture and current socio-political issues. Arguably, Moxie takes on A LOT of current socio-political issues in a way that is digestible for audiences of all ages. Moxie tells the…
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Will You Go to Ryan Murphy’s “The Prom” With Me?
Netflix and Ryan Murphy have once again answered our desperate pleas for queer representation in film. The Prom — Broadway musical turned colorful screen explosion — advocates for simple LGBTQ+ rights as high-schooler Emma Nolan, (played by queer actress Jo Ellen Pellman), wants to bring her girlfriend to prom. Having drawn in the ultimate all-star cast, Ryan…
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East Side Sushi- Movie Review
So you know when Netflix is going to take down underrated films and they warn you? East Side Sushi will only be on Netflix until March 13 and if you haven’t seen it yet you should go watch it RIGHT NOW! East Side Sushi is the story of a Mexican mother/ very talented chef named…
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“The Boys in the Band” Movie Review
It’s Harold’s birthday, what could go wrong?! The Boys in the Band was initially performed on stage in 1968, made into a film in 1970, then returned to stage for a Broadway revival in 2018, only to be made into a film again with the same cast. The story has just as much “oomph” and…
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The Wilds is ~Wildly~ Diverse
This past week I binge-watched The Wilds on Amazon Prime and the characters, themes, and overall tone pretty much consumed my life. The general premise of this character-based show is simple, a group of young women is stranded on a deserted island. Each woman believes they are on an excursion they call “Dawn of Eve”…