Diversity in fiction is important, but it shouldn’t be ‘forced’ or for diversity’s sake. One of the many things I love about Black Panther is that it doesn’t go out of its way to tell you that it’s about African people. It simply shows its pride for those of African […]
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I am torn about the Netflix movie Cuties. Having watched it, I found it very disturbing, and I think there are ways the movie could have been made to still amplify its message. Certain scenes did not need to be shown. On the flip side, I do understand the director’s […]
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I adore Disney movies. They provide so much nostalgia. I had a rich diet of Disney movies as a child, and this diet has continued into my adulthood. Disney films are under much scrutiny and criticism nowadays. These are often by (some) feminists, or others claiming that Disney films are […]
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It’s unfortunate and ironic that while the western world has become more liberal, it has grown more dogmatic and closed-minded. Terms like ‘racist’, ‘sexist’, ‘Nazi’, and ‘fascist’ are being thrown around so liberally (pun slightly intended). It’s easy to laugh at this foolish pettiness, but it’s also dangerous, because when […]
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No opening credits, just a camera pan of a bunch of people standing in a circle, on separate red pods. Some of them disappear suddenly by falling off or stepping off. Worse than Game of Thrones; a character I liked died within minutes. What a movie. (Spoilers ahead.) Circle of […]
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Scarlet O’Hara may be one of the most vindictive, selfish, spoiled, narcissistic, irresistibly charming anti-heroines written in cinematic history. Perhaps without her, there’d be no Cersei Lannister, or Regina George, or Amy Dunne. She and her contemporaries are the perfect examples of ‘toxic femininity‘. But more than this; she is […]
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