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 hunter. And as you can imagine, sexist and racist trolls began to reveal themselves, challenging the dec...
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 about the movie was that it was gonna be about a woman who needed to safeguard herself because she ...
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 around racism called White Flight. But instead of giving a Barbarian movie review, I instead give a B...
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 reprise of Poor Unfortunate Souls? Yes. I’m actually REALLY upset about that!
Listen, somet...
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 realized the change gave them the perfect opportunity to do a better job addressing racism, race relat...
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 highlighting the aspects that needed to be addressed about it thanks to the fictional twist the movie gave it?...
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 neighborhoods like The Glen -- aka the hood and ghettos -- They Cloned Tyrone has elements in its sci-fi...
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 MCU will be releasing its second narrative in The Multiverse Saga following Ant-Man and the Wasp Qua...
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, Loki seems to be the one main character among Doctor Strange and Ant-Man who is the main protagoni...
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 probably go “Really? I know you were excited about it, but damn!” While others might go “...No, yeah;...
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 judging other black folk’s own personal blackness. So much that I wish that there was a version of ...
2023-08-01 16:00:16 +0000 UTC View Post
(WARNING: Contains spoilers for both "The Blackening" and "Undercover Brother")
(This will be fleshed out and reformatted into a video for "Readus 101" relatively soon, so I'm presenting th...
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 Kaluuya, who’s taking a weekend trip upstate to meet the parents of his white girlfriend Rose Armitag...
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 the 1956 film “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” tried to say it originally stood for. So I explain...
2023-07-05 16:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post
(WARNING: Contains spoilers for "Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse")
(This may be fleshed out further and become the topic for a future video once the movie is released digitally) 2023-06-07 16:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Readers, 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 original voice of Mario -- in favor of Chris Pratt
But due to life y’know...life-ing, I had n...
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. And its because of how each man in The Super Mario Bros. Movie translates societal expectations of ...
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 Renaissance. The one that started the revitalization of their animation department as we currently know it b...
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 with Disney bringing on board Howard Ashman for its music, the audience it formed solidified the queer...
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 referring to in the DC Animated Universe Movie “Justice League Dark: Apokolips War” was just a joke, ...
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 John Constantine dated in the movie was the talk of the internet, allowing some to look at King Shark...
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 fight supervillains on film, especially if they’re as strong and as powerful as he is...
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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 of Steel writer David S. Goyer took from Kryptonians in the comics and how he used it in the first ...
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 and Gotham Police Lieutenant James Gordon -- the only cop he trusts -- are teaming up to find a kille...
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, oppression, capitalism and white supremacy, there’s a way that The Batman: Part II and The Batman: Part...
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 sorta rhymed there, but give me a break here; I absolutely mean it.
First and foremost, the blackn...
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 Hunter, Sabo Brok’s job as a bounty hunter is being forced to be looked at under the the same lens of ...
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 race-swapping in movies and TV shows.
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When it comes to the topic of minori...
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. However, what seems to be the main problem when it comes to race swapped and original characters is ...
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 both pop culture and the independent filmmaking scene, but with the 2022 release of Clerks III -- the...
2023-01-19 00:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post