Archive for April, 2017
Imagine: The world as you know it is about to end…or so young Ginger thinks in the 2013 coming-of-age indie movie Ginger & Rosa, directed by Sally Potter, which stars Elle Fanning (Ginger) and Alice Englert (Rosa). Anti-Cold War campaigns in London begin to clash with the sexual revolution of the 1960s. Everyone is
‘The Get Down’ on Netflix has gained a massive following since its release last year. It resonates with people of color, and the music is also an added bonus. One of the stars of the show is Herizen Fawn, who plays Mylene Cruz. Recently news has surfaced that 20-year-old soon to be 21-year-old Herizen Fawn is
After a long wait filled with anticipation, excitement, and the occasional hate letter, the Netflix original series Dear White People was finally dropped. Before even stumbling into the first episode of the series, one cannot ignore the slew of one-starred and even zero-starred reviews of the television show. As expected, most if not all of the critiques
{ This article contains discussion and references to sexual assault} It should be a simple notion, to avoid mocking sexual assault, or using it as a punchline or piece of an equation to get views . This however, is a concept that has not translated to a large part of the online community, resulting in an alarming lack of
Hollywood, over the past decade, has become more and more diverse by creating movies which are fixated on a majority ethnic minority cast, including but not limited to “Moonlight” and “Hidden Figures“. Hollywood and many other mainstream Television networks are more often casting Hispanic, Black and Latinx actors to play lead roles in their projects, which is,
On April 28, 2017, Dear White People began streaming on Netflix. This series, based off of the 2014 film with the same name, is about the blatant racism and microaggressions that black students at a predominately white institute are forced to face. This struggle comes to a boil when a group of white students host
For the 25th Anniversary of the LA Riots, Spike Lee has made an hour long film “Rodney King”, which you can find on Netflix, featuring Roger Guenveur Smith. It describes King’s infamous, brutal, run in with LA cops on March 3, 1991 and the aftermath that led to the riots. It’s a poetic, spoken
Halsey is set to release her sophomore album, Hopeless Fountain Kingdom, on June 2 and yesterday she released her track list in the uniquest way possible. A lucky fan in cities across the U.S woke up to to a customized newspaper on their doorstep. The newspaper, titled The Kingdom Times, features a city and date which
On April 7, 2017, a masterpiece was released to the world. For those of you who don’t know of Joey Bada$$, look no further than his sophomore album “ALL AMERIKKKAN BADA$$” to learn his true purpose. Besides being a superb rapper, Joey has given many the opportunity to understood some of the issues that many
A Handmaid’s Tale is a famous dystopian story, written by Margaret Atwood, that takes place in a society where women are only good for making children, cleaning and cooking, or staying out of the way. The women who carry the children, handmaid’s, are taken from their families and placed in homes where they are then
Sixteen-year-old Peter Sanchez is not well known, but his progress in the music industry should prove otherwise. Through his lyrical melodies and catchy beats, he creates songs that make your heart aching for more. Born in Laredo, he now reigns in San Antonio, Texas, making buzz to the locals. After recently hitting 1,000 plays on Soundcloud,
In 2007, members of the Writers Guild of America, a labor union of writers for various industries including film and television, began a one hundred day strike in protest of low writers’ funding compared to studios’ copious profits. The strike resulted in the American film industry losing an estimated $380 million and cost the writers nearly $285 million
