| TV, Adnan Syed, documentaries, HBO, Serial, true crime By Princess Weekes on Fri,11:46 HBO is going to be providing their own take on the murder in an upcoming documentary called The Case Against Adnan Syed. Read More > Movies, In the Heights, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Quiara Alegría Hudes, Warner Bros. By Teresa Jusino on Fri,11:24 We were so grateful when Lin-Manuel Miranda and Quiara Alegría Hudes finally got the film rights back to their musical, In the Heights, after having been tied up at The Weinstein Company. But the question still remained: Will we still be getting this film? Turns out, yes! The In the Heights movie is still happening, people! Read More > Big on the Internet, crime, mugshots By Charline Jao on Fri,11:14 The premise of the website involved posting booking photographs and charging individuals to have them un-published. Read More > TV, #MeToo Movement, catfish, MTV By Chelsea Steiner on Fri,10:33 Another day, another sexual misconduct allegation against a man in a position of power. Today's entry into the Advent Calendar of Terrible Men features Nev Schulman involved in alleged sexual misconduct. MTV has suspended production of Catfish: The TV Show as it investigates allegations involving the program’s host and executive producer. Read More > News, Healthcare, obamacare, Republicans By Dan Van Winkle on Fri,10:33 Republicans spent a good 75 percent of President Obama's term railing against "Obamacare," a.k.a. the Affordable Care Act, fooling their voters into believing that the solution was to roll it back, rather than work to make it better, because that made for better campaign propaganda. Now that they've gained control of the entire government and still can't get that done, they're starting to admit that it's because they never had a better plan. Read More > News, Bill Gates, donald trump, HIV, HPV By Charline Jao on Fri,9:11 "Both times he wanted to know the difference between HIV and HPV and so I was able to explain that those are things that are rarely confused with each other." Read More > TV, bisexual representation, bisexuality, LGBTQ Representation, LGBTQIA By Teresa Jusino on Fri,8:25 When I was working on my queer cinema piece yesterday, I asked my TMS colleagues to help me think of canon, queer-on-screen, bisexual characters in film. There was a lot of stuttering and stammering before we were able to start naming names, and then once we did, they were all in some way problematic. This is interesting, because when our focus turned to television, we had a much easier time. Can television be the thing that will save us all? Read More > Big on the Internet, Amber Ruffin, Late Night with Seth Meyers, Roseanne (2018) By Charline Jao on Fri,7:51 Amber Ruffin's "Minute of Fury" on Late Night with Seth Meyers was so great that I wish it had lasted the entire one hour. Read More > News, discrimination, Kirsten Gillibrand, Senate, sexual harassment, women in politics By Vivian Kane on Thu,5:59 100 Days ago, the U.S. Congress passed a bill that would reform the ways in which sexual harassment claims are handled on Capitol Hill. As it stands, that process is super gross and serves to benefit—you guessed it—not the people subjected to harassment. So why hasn't it made any progress in the Senate? Read More > Big on the Internet, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Gina Rodriguez, Star Wars (franchise), Starz, things we saw today By Princess Weekes on Thu,5:49 Starz is adapting another Tudor era show, Lando Calrissian will not be the focus of the next Star Wars Anthology movie, Gina Rodriguez finally comes to the 99, and A.I. are gonna teach you to see Asian actors in leading roles, damn it! Read More > Big on the Internet, content creators, Sailor J, youtube influencers By Princess Weekes on Thu,5:34 Sailor J has taken over the internet, using her voice and public image to highlight issues of cultural appropriation, Harry Potter fuckery, and women's issues. To dismiss her as just someone who just makes "funny makeup videos" is a disservice to both her as a creative and as someone has been committed to social justice issues from the beginning. Read More > Movies, Lando Calrissian, LGBTQIA, solo: a star wars story, Star Wars (franchise) By Kaila Hale-Stern on Thu,4:53 When asked about Lando Calrissian's sexuality, Jonathan Kasdan had some wonderful things to say. Read More > Sponsored, The Mary Sue Shop By Diana Vilbert on Thu,4:45 Social media used to be as complicated as figuring out who your top MySpace friends were. Now, you can have a lucrative career in social media—as long as you know your stuff. We can help with that—get the Social Media Management Pro Bundle for $34 at the Mary Sue Shop. Read More > TV, Lana and Lily Wachowski, Netflix, Sense8 By Chelsea Steiner on Thu,4:12 The end is here with a stunning new trailer for the series finale of Netflix's cult favorite Sense8. Netflix has already released poster art for the two-hour long Sense8 finale, which bows on Netflix June 8th. Read More > Movies, female director, female directors, Kristen Stewart, women in film By Teresa Jusino on Thu,4:04 Actress and Cannes Film Festival juror Kristen Stewart has been evolving as a director recently, having directed several music videos as well as a short film as part of Refinery 29's Shatterbox Anthology. Now, she's finally taking the plunge to write and direct her feature film debut, having found inspiration in the world of sports. Read More > News, Cannes Film Festival, John Travolta, protest, sexual misconduct By Vivian Kane on Thu,3:27 In Travolta's reality, Battlefield Earth is a lesser Picasso, talking about gender-specific issues is "inhuman," and mental illness is caused by a thetan imbalance. Read More > TV, The CW, The Originals, The Vampire Diaries By Princess Weekes on Thu,2:27 I still watch The Originals and I will probably watch Legacies when it comes out, however, it doesn't erase that the Vampire Diaries universe has had some terrible issues with race, women and LGBT characters throughout its two series and in the most recent episode of The Originals it added on to that. Read More > Movies, LGBTQ Representation, LGBTQIA By Teresa Jusino on Thu,2:26 A recent Vulture piece on "Queer Cinema" got my attention with its assertion that, despite the increase in LGBTQIA themes, stories, and characters in films, that on the whole those films are "subsumed by aesthetics and narratives that display a straight gaze." It argues for more subversion, for a "queer structure." As if there were only one way to define and deliver a truly "queer film." Read More > TV, Arrow, Batwoman, DC Entertainment By Chelsea Steiner on Thu,2:01 Batwoman is finally coming making her live-action debut as part of an epic crossover event on the CW this winter. Arrow star Stephen Amell made the announcement at the CW upfronts in New York, saying "We’re incredibly excited to announce that we’ll be doing another crossover event this fall on the CW, and we’ll be introducing a new character. For the very first time appearing, we’ll be fighting alongside Batwoman, which is terrific." Read More > AMP Featured, TV, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Terry Crews, The Daily Show By Chelsea Steiner on Thu,12:29 Terry Crews is many things: a former NFL star, a visual artist, a gifted comic actor, and now an increasingly important male voice in the #MeToo Movement. For me, he will always be Julius Rock on Everybody Hates Chris, one of the all-time great television dads. Crews appeared on The Daily Show to promote his role as Bedlam in Deadpool 2, and discussed other topics like the Brooklyn Nine-Nine pick-up and toxic masculinity. Read More > |
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