Dissecting the Casual Racism of “Airplane!”
Airplane! (1980) is a fun spoof comedy with lots of laughs, right? I watched this film for the first time the other night. I loved it. Then came the racist jokes.

Korn at Cidade do Rock, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on September 19, 2015. Setlist: Blind / Ball Tongue (with snippets of "It Takes… more ) / Need To (with "Alive" chorus as second chorus) / Clown / Here to Stay / Coming Undone / Did My Time / Got the Life / Shoots and Ladders (with "Somebody Someone" snippet afterwards) / Falling Away From Me / Freak on a Leash
Airplane! (1980) is a fun spoof comedy with lots of laughs, right? I watched this film for the first time the other night. I loved it. Then came the racist jokes.
I Love You Forever, marketed as a “subversive” romantic comedy is in fact a painful horror film about a young woman deep in the throes of an abusive relationship.
The “gay best friend”, an age-old trope, has been done in countless films and television series. Ranging from one-note (Sex and the City's Stanford and Mario) to nuanced (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt's Tituss), the gay best friend exists to support and advise the main protagonist, with their conflicts swept to the side.
Like Stars on Earth is a representative movie that talks about dyslexia to young audiences and why it is important in today's generation.
In Saudi Arabia, a little girl (Wadjda) is told she can't have a bike because she's a girl. Wadjda struggles to obtain a bicycle to race her friend, Abdullah, due to the gender inequality and cultural norms of Saudi Arabia.
The Weight is highly recommended, will transport you back to its Great Depression-era setting and will have you rooting for the protagonist harder than most films this year