Editorial
Watch This Week – 8/1/22
Featured properties: Motherland: Fort Salem, Reservation Dogs, Clusterf**k: Woodstock ’99, Wedding Season, Luck, The Sandman, The Outlaws
Featured properties: Motherland: Fort Salem, Reservation Dogs, Clusterf**k: Woodstock ’99, Wedding Season, Luck, The Sandman, The Outlaws
A brother and sister investigate a possible extraterrestrial threat to their home.
Last year a report from USC brought to light that Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders make up less than 6% of speaking roles in the entertainment industry and 4% of lead roles. The study looked at 13,000 popular films and found that of the 4% with AAPI leads, only 6 were women, 0 were women over 40, 0 were in the LGBTQ+ community, and 14 were Dwayne Johnson. The numbers for people behind the camera were incredibly low as well. Every year, for one month, we tell people in the AAPI community they are important. We tell them we want… Read more »
A smorgasbord of Marvel!
A witty and fantastic heist film featuring the “bad guys” from the animal kingdom and the storybooks.
Featured properties: Better Call Saul, Pacific Rim: The Black, Russian Doll, The Flight Attendant, A Very British Scandal, Selling Sunset, Heartstopper, Outer Range
It’s a Batman movie—we all know what that is by now, right?
A chapter about Kanye’s car accident, the creation of his first album College Dropout, and the critical success following its release.
Featured propoerties: Cheer, Peacemaker, The Tragedy of Macbeth, After Life, The House, Sex Appeal
Basically: A tale of friendship between two women who meet while giving birth in the hospital. I honestly don’t know how to write about this film. Pedro Almodóvar isn’t the type of filmmaker you get from the States or the UK where films tend to follow a simple format about a particular subject that goes from A to B to C etc. I first discovered Almodóvar in the 2000s, while I was in my twenties, and his multilayered stories about women were something I’d never experienced before. His films were not like the ones being made here in Hollywood. Almodóvar… Read more »