The release of Castlevania Nocturne, Netflix’s sequel series to Castlevania, revealed that the character Annette was race-swapped to be a runaway slave and given a new backstory as a monster hunt...
2023-10-17 16:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostReaders, I’ll be 100% honest with you. I had NO idea what I was getting myself into when I decided to watch Barbarian for the first time.
/I was one of those individuals whose first opinion...
2023-10-04 20:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
The 2022 horror movie Barbarian takes place in a blighted neighborhood in modern day Detroit that -- according to how Barbarian explained it -- was heavily affected by American migration centered a...
2023-10-03 16:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostReaders, I wanna start this by saying I don’t think the 2023 live-action remake of Disney’s “The Little Mermaid” was terrible
Am I upset that they got rid of the lyrics to the Vanessa...
2023-09-20 20:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Disney’s 2023 live-action remake of The Little Mermaid -- despite personal gripes -- impressed me with the direction they decided to take Halle Bailey’s Ariel. So much that it felt like they re...
2023-09-19 16:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostReaders, have you ever watched a movie that took a subject that you became extremely passionate about thanks to your neurodivergent ability of hyperfixation, and saw that it succeeded in highlighti...
2023-09-06 20:00:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Netflix’s “They Cloned Tyrone” introduced a lot of people to The Glen -- one of many impoverished black neighborhoods in Atlanta, Georgia. And for a lot of African Americans that live in neig...
2023-09-05 16:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post(sits on couch) Okay. Loki is the main character of the Multiverse Saga. (pauses) Where’s everyone going?
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With the October 2023 release of Loki season 2, Phase 5 of the ...
2023-08-11 18:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
If the MCU’s Multiverse Saga has a main character in its narrative, then it’s Tom Hiddleston’s Loki. Thanks to Loki Season 1 and the direction of the other installments in The Multiverse Saga...
2023-08-10 23:41:26 +0000 UTC View PostThis video is sponsored by BetterHelp.com
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Depending on the type of person you are, this little bit of trivia may or may not surprise you.
Some of y’all will probabl...
2023-08-02 20:00:53 +0000 UTC View Post
With the release of the horror-comedy film The Blackening, African Americans now have another satire that successfully highlights the dangers of alienation within our own community in the form of j...
2023-08-01 16:00:16 +0000 UTC View Post
(WARNING: Contains spoilers for both "The Blackening" and "Undercover Brother")
(This wil...
2023-07-19 16:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostI wanna talk about Get Out
/Get Out is a 2017 horror film written and directed by Jordan Peele. It tells the story of Chris Washington, a black photographer from Brooklyn played by Daniel Kal...
2023-07-10 20:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Jordan Peele’s Get Out is a great addition to the horror genre surrounding body snatchers, because it highlights body snatchers' roots to whiteness instead of the anti-communist propaganda that t...
2023-07-05 16:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post
(WARNING: Contains spoilers for "Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse")
(This may be flesh...
2023-06-07 16:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostReaders, I have no problem admitting that I originally wasn’t all that excited for the Super Mario Brothers movie
Not only was I irritated with Universal sidelining Charles Marinet -- the o...
2023-05-31 20:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Out of the four main men in The Super Mario Bros. Movie -- Mario, Luigi, Bowser and Donkey Kong -- three of them deal with issues that mold their individual masculinity in ways that can grow toxic....
2023-05-30 16:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostReaders, I, like I’m sure a good amount of you, owe a lot of my childhood upbringing as a millennial born in the late 80’s to the historical era of Disney animation known as the Disney Renaissa...
2023-05-10 20:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
The Little Mermaid, Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale about a mermaid princess, is a story about queer yearning that heteronormativity allowed Walt Disney Studios to market it to girls. But wi...
2023-05-09 16:00:59 +0000 UTC View PostReaders, there’s no denying that King Shark is a shark. But now King Shark is also queer
And before all the homophobes and wanna-be comicsgaters come on here to say that the bit I’m refer...
2023-04-26 20:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
In DC's Harley Quinn, King Shark could be seen as queer as early as season 1. Then the DC animated universe movie "Justice League Dark: Apokolips War" came out, and the reveal that King Shark and J...
2023-04-25 16:53:50 +0000 UTC View PostReaders, I have no problem admitting that I have a soft spot for the first installment of the DCEU, Man of Steel
While it catered to the side of me that always wanted to see Superman actually...
2023-04-12 20:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Man of Steel, the first film in the DCEU, features a take on Krypton and the Kryptonian race that made me question a few creative decisions regarding Superman’s origins. And after seeing what Man...
2023-04-11 16:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostI wanna talk about The Batman
/The Batman is a 2022 film written and directed by Matt Reeves. Set 2 years into billionaire Bruce Wayne’s crusade against crime as the titular vigilante, he a...
2023-03-15 23:30:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Batman has a history of promoting copaganda in comics, movies and television, and Matt Reeves The Batman isn’t exempt from this. But with the origins of police being linked to colonization, oppre...
2023-03-13 16:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostThis video is sponsored by SurfShark VPN
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Readers, I want to start this video by stating an absolute fact: My Dad the Bounty Hunter absolutely slaps
Yes, I know that I sort...
2023-03-01 21:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
My Dad the Bounty Hunter, a Netflix Original Series, is a beautiful display of an African American family on an epic space adventure for children. But thanks to the story for My Dad the Bounty Hunt...
2023-02-28 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostThis video is sponsored by Babbel. Save 60% on your subscription when you click on the link in the description box below to download the app and sign up.
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I wanna talk about...
2023-02-16 00:05:01 +0000 UTC View Post
The debate of race swapping popular characters, also known as racebending, and making an original character instead has been a hot debate among fandoms for years and has made it into modern media. ...
2023-02-14 17:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostINTRO
Clerks, Clerks II, and Clerks III.
Not only has the 1994 original been deemed the crown jewel of Kevin Smith’s career and made him such a well-known figure in b...
2023-01-19 00:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post