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‘A Wrinkle in Bad’
2/10 They should call this movie A Wrinkle in Bad, because it’s so bad. A Wrinkle in Time is based on the beloved 1962 young adult novel by Madeleine L’Engle. It follows Meg Murray (Storm Reid), who is tormented at school … Continue reading
Posted in Entropy
Tagged #black panther, #Disney, #golden globes, #mad max: fury road, #mcu, #mindy kaling, #nOprah, #oscarssowhite, A Wrinkle in Time, Ava DuVernay, Captain Marvel, Chris Pine, cool physics stuff, Deric McCabe, Jennifer Lee, Levi Miller, Madeleine L'Engle, Oprah Winfrey, Reese Witherspoon, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Rowan Blanchard, Solo: A Star Wars Story, Storm Reid
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On La La Land and fascist propaganda
As La La Land danced through theaters the past few months to the tune of $137.5 million domestic, a record-tying 14 Academy Award nominations and a Best Picture victory that’s been presumed to be in the bag for months now, … Continue reading
Posted in White Noise
Tagged #donald trump, #hollywood, #make america great again, #nostalgia, #oscars, #oscarssowhite, #ryan gosling, 12 Years a Slave, 300, Academy Awards, Amy Adams, Emma Stone, Fake News, fascist propaganda, fuck the Oscars, jazz, John Legend, La La Land, Moonlight, white-washing
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A word about commodifying homosexuality
Representation of minorities and women have always been important, and they’ve become increasingly important to the public over the past few years. For political reasons both flimsy and painfully real — the Black Lives Matter movement and all the death … Continue reading
Posted in White Noise
Tagged #black lives matter, #blacklivesmatter, #matt damon, #oscarssowhite, #simon pegg, #star trek beyond, Black Captain America, gay representation in film, Gay Sulu, Gay sulu is tokenism, George Takei, Ghostbusters is an exploitation film, Hikaru Sulu, James Bond is pansexual, lady Thor, minority representation in film, representation of women in film, silencing minority voices, Social justice warriors
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2016 Academy Awards fallout
#Oscarssowhite dominates the ceremony The Academy Awards are normally awful, but this year, they traded in the usual tedium for a three-hour apology for #oscarssowhite that managed to cast a pall over the entire ceremony. It’s easy to see why … Continue reading
Posted in White Noise
Tagged #affirmative action, #alejandro inarritu, #annie hall, #argo, #birdman, #chariots of fire, #cheryl boone isaacs, #chris rock, #drive, #eddie murphy, #ex machina, #Fantastic Four, #forsest gump, #fury road, #george miller, #heaven's gate, #it follows, #its on us, #joe biden, #lady gaga, #leonardo dicaprio, #mad max, #michael fassbender, #morgan freeman, #oscars, #oscarssowhite, #pulp fiction, #raiders of the lost arc, #ride along 2, #sam smith, #samuel l jackson, #sicario, #spotlight, #star wars, #suicide squad, #the artist, #the revenant, #tom hardy, Transformers
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