The man has no job and he wanders around wearing black pair of suits visiting one funeral from another. Posing to his girlfriend that he’s on a job-hunt, he spends all day visiting funerals. Some may suspect him of condolence money thief, but he simply attends funerals as he believes serene silence gives him certain vibration to gamble.
Disney has kept its word and allowed a new generation of Black and/or African storytellers to tell their own original stories. The question remains, will the public keep their word?
Of the 28 total films I watched, just six of them were queer or featured queer characters in some way.
After the untimely death of his brother by way of an ambush in Kandahar, Afghanistan, the protagonist, ‘81’(Alan Ritchson) unsuccessfully makes several attempts to become an Army Ranger. On his last mission to complete the Ranger selection process he and his squad encounter an otherworldly ‘soldier’.
'The Invisible Man' triumphs in tension even as it drops the ball on genuine surprise for the audience.
Netflix’s Shadow and Bone has a complicated relationship with race. It has a diverse cast, but not without its problems. Based on Leigh Bardugo’s two book series, the show features characters from the Shadow and Bone trilogy, which is very straight and white, and the Six of Crows duology, which is much more diverse. When bringing together a cast and writing about these characters, the team behind the show expanded upon some of the representation missing from the first trilogy, then seemed to take away representation from the duology. Shadow and Bone seems to play a bit of a push and pull game when it comes to portraying diversity onscreen.
