The War On Drugs & The Portrayal of An Anti-Drug Abuse Message: Entertainment Industry Edition
Photo: The Wolf of Wall Street/Paramount Pictures, Beautiful Boy/Amazon Studios, The Wolf of Wall Street/Paramount Pictures, Al Pacino as Tony Montana in Brian De Palma’s Scarface/Universal Pictures It’s no surprise that illicit drug-use has been referenced and...
The Hollywood New Actor Debacle – How Hollywood Tackles Unions and Workers’ Rights
Photo: Hollywood Unions/SAG-AFTRA, WGA, DGA, PGA In recent history, the share of American salary earners who are members of unions has decreased. Many workers see no point in affiliation with a workers’ union, as the costs of membership fees outweigh the small...
Netflix’s The Society Is A Modern Re-telling Of The Lord Of The Flies, Or Are They Reflecting The Current Society?
Photo/Video: The Society, Seacia Pavao/Netflix/Hollywood Insider YouTube ChannelThe Society is the latest young adult series on Netflix that has us all on the edge of our seats. It’s set in West Ham, Connecticut where a class of senior students are on a field...
Ava DuVernay’s When They See Us Is Activism At Its Finest Bringing To Light The Injustices Wreaked Upon Innocent African-American Boys Due To The Law Being Infested With Systemic Prejudice
Photo: Aunjanue Ellis, Ethan Herisse in “When They See Us”. Atsushi Nishijima/NetflixNetflix delivers, once again, another powerful courtroom drama gone wrong, alluding to the real life case in 1989 of the wrongly accused Central Park Five. When They See...
