Category: Black
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Fire Island, Love, and Intimacy | Incluvie Movie Highlights Podcast
The June episode of the Incluvie Movie Highlights provides 3 new and buzzworthy films presenting different types of love: Good Luck to You, Leo Grande with intimacy, Father of the Bride with familial love, and this month’s feature – Fire Island, with intimate and romantic love. Movie Critic Melanie Ojwang joins us to discuss Emergency.
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‘Umbrella Academy’ Season 3 Does Justice to Its Marginalized Characters
In season 3 of ‘Umbrella Academy’, Diego, Allison, and Viktor finally get character arcs that address their unique experiences as a Latino man, a Black woman who lived through the 60s, and a trans man.
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Dreams Come True in the Color-Blind Casting of Cinderella (1997)
“Rodgers’ & Hammerstein’s Cinderella” wasn’t just a fairytale, it’s a Black girl’s fairytale. It was a fantasy world where the undeniable beauty of Black girls and Women was celebrated and beloved.
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‘Hacks’ Is Not a Hack…It’s Comedic Perfection
Deborah (Jean Smart) and Ava (Hannah Einbinder) are a delight to watch evolve, sometimes devolve, then evolve again.
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‘Better Nate Than Ever’ takes to Broadway
The coming-of-age story that brings viewers into the world of Broadway, New York City, with musical talent and LGBTQ leads.
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‘Jurassic World: Dominion’ is a Love Letter to the Jurassic Era
The [SPOILER-Free] story of Jurassic World: Dominion is that the humans never learned from their mistakes from the previous films, science is still running amok, and the world is paying the price.
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Coming of Age with Butterflies and Timeliness | Podcast
The May Incluvie Movie Highlights features 3 fantastic coming-of-age films. We explore butterfly-inducing Sneakerella and Crush, and the sadly timely feature – The Fallout, about the after-effects of a school shooting.
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Wanda Maximoff: The Hero We Deserve, Not The Villain We Need
If the message here is that without a support system, grieving people turn into monsters, it’s not really well-delivered and may be flawed as a message itself.
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No Race, No Gender, Only People – Unbiased Casting
Hiring bias is something that’s rampant in all industries (even unconscious bias). But writing a script totally neutral not only opens the door for more diverse actors, but also for characters that are people first.
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Cheaper By the Dozen: a 2022 Family-Comedy Remake
A 2022 remake of the previous films of the same name, but with a more diverse cast, increasing representation and diversity.