Disclaimer: This article contains major spoilers for Us (2019) as well as minor spoilers for Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) and The Purge: Election Year (2016). You would be pressed to find a Bay Area resident who’s never made their way down to Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk on a sunny day. The glittering ocean, […]
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The Wandering Earth and the “new” Chinese nationalist idea
Recently, a Chinese sci-fi film called The Wandering Earth has not only made headlines in Chinese mainstream media but has also aroused heated discussion about its quality, symbolic meaning, and theme, reflecting the emergence of a new type of nationalism among the Chinese general population. What is The Wandering Earth about? “The sun is aging […]
#OscarsSoWhite: The Call for Racial Diversity in Hollywood
Lack of racial diversity in Hollywood made headlines last year when the 2015 Academy Awards (AKA the Oscars) featured nominations for twenty white actors and zero minority actors in its acting categories. The outrage caught on social media fire with a blunt and catchy Twitter hashtag : #OscarsSoWhite. The #OscarsSoWhite people received backlash, too, mostly […]
American Sniper: Opposing Scopes
From The Hurt Locker to Zero Dark Thirty, military combat films have become increasingly controversial in the media. But has political correctness gone too far or can these films divorce politics from art? Staff writers Adora Svitak and Jordan Ash offer contesting views of the Oscar-nominated movie American Sniper.