The Midnight Special Legendary Performances: More 1973 (1973)

A brief look at two Barry Jenkins films that have established him as one of the greatest filmmakers of our time.

The second film takes us on Peter's journey to be understood.

The legacy of this movie starts off the film series with a bang of magic, plot twists, and battles.

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.

Tarantino's alternative history of the 1960's uncritically repeats the era's sexist and racist stereotypes.

Everyone needs a BFF and a "wing person" like Yumi (Chloris Li). Li brings the "straight person" persona, literally and figuratively balancing James Aaron Oh's perfectly timed comedic delivery as the unlucky-in-love.