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As we all remember, the first few days of 2020 were already a preview of the chaos the year would bring: talks of World War III, news of a growing epidemic, Kobe Bryant’s untimely death. By the end of the year, we were begging for the headlines to just stop. In the first few days
Film Twitter took a hard hit this week, with resident pretty boy Ansel Elgort being faced with various, disturbing sexual assault allegations. Many fans have even ripped their Goldfinch and Baby Driver posters off their walls and managed to get #AnselElgortIsOverParty trending. Their 2014 dream boy has officially been canceled. We’re used to this by now:
Nineties heartthrob/renowned nice-guy Keanu Reeves is officially off the market. Reports of the star’s relationship status flooded in early Tuesday morning after he appeared on the red carpet alongside artist Alexandra Grant the night before. The couple immediately gained the public’s support and broke hearts across the globe, but despite many congratulating the pair, comments
At a time when TV-shows are getting more and more diverse, one group seems to be left out from the push for increased representation: Muslims. As a Muslim myself, I can’t help but notice how the world of TV appears void of Muslim representation. Apart from an inmate on Orange Is The New Black (whose
It’s no secret that big-budget films have become the bane of our existence. It seems as though the years following 2016 have been the years for remakes and sequels when it comes to reviving old films. The amount of films scheduled to make an appearance in 2018 is rather large, and that’s one of the biggest issues
Harvey Weinstein. Kevin Spacey. Woody Allen. Roman Polanski. Hollywood’s own house of cards is crumbling. As it’s key players fall, one by one, like a domino, from cloud 9, who’s loud thud can be heard around the world. Hollywood struggles to combat and fight against, not sexual assault or the toxic rape culture that has
Diana Huey is an Asian-American actress and singer who has been cast as Ariel in Disney’s stage musical, The Little Mermaid. Huey received warm reviews of her performance as Ariel, but along with those reviews, she also received backlash due to the fact that she is not white. Ariel, as you may recall, is a red-haired
If not for his music, title as “King of Rock n’ Roll” or iconic sideburns, then you definitely know Elvis for being America’s Sweetheart and for dying an untimely death and all the rumors, conspiracies and scandals that transpired after. What you probably don’t know is that Elvis Presley, by most, if not all definitions
Despite the superiority that is often associated with entertainers in Hollywood, there is much racism and stereotyping aimed towards the small sector that people of color occupy within the industry. More often than not, minorities are typecast as what Americans perceive to be the standard face of their respective ethnicities, whether that be Asian, Arab,
Wonder Woman is a new superhero movie based off the DC Comics of the same name; with its recent release, it has received a lot of both praise and backlash from the public. The praise coming from the fact that it’s one of the few women superhero movies that is all about female empowerment. And the
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,
