Ava DuVernay’s ARRAY Now: A Frontrunner Of Diversity In Hollywood
Photo: ARRAY Now Oscar-nominated writer-director Ava DuVernay is best known for her Black-centric films and her work on diversifying Hollywood. She began a career in film in the mid-2000s, and slowly but surely began to gain more attention. It wasn’t until 2015’s...
‘All Light, Everywhere’: A Self-Aware Documentary on Police Brutality and On-Going Police Violence
Photo: ‘All Light, Everywhere’/Super LTD Documentarian Theo Anthony’s newest masterpiece ‘All Light, Everywhere’ is a thoughtful exploration of the gray area between videos and the truths surrounding them. One of the first things that are said by the narrator is...
The All-White ‘Lord of the Rings’: A Continuing Lack of Diversity
Photo: ‘Lord of the Rings’ Perhaps the most influential fantasy franchise of all time is ‘Lord of the Rings’. The original trilogy has grossed almost three billion dollars and the second trilogy of ‘The Hobbit’ grossed approximately the same amount. While...
What Really Makes Don Quixote the Greatest Story Ever Told?
Photo: Don Quixote Surely, judging a book written 400 years ago in line with modern standards of narrative and storytelling amounts to unforgivable sacrilege and infant-level ignorance, especially since the book under discussion is solely responsible for introducing...
