Enough is Enough: A Condemnation of Comedy’s Abuse of the Trans Community
Photo: Comedy’s Abuse of the Trans Community/SNL/NBC The Fight for Trans Rights Persists If anything is to be gathered from the past century of human history, it is that progress is a grueling, sluggish process that requires all hands on deck. Change does not just...
‘Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind’: A Haunting Sci-Fi Allegory that Established Miyazaki as an Environmentalist Icon
Photo: ‘Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind’/Toel Company Insect Apocalypse We haven’t seen a quarter of known bee species since the 1990s. Western monarch butterfly populations have dropped by ~97% between the 1980s and mid-2010s. Ants, bees, butterflies,...
Unfinished Film Franchises: Stories in Film Left Incomplete With Abandoned Story Arcs
Photo: Unfinished Film Franchises For every story that gets made in Hollywood, another is bought and never sees life on the silver screen. And for some of the ones that do get made, there can be big plans for the future of the film that are never realized. Franchises...
The Five Best and Most Influential Asian American Filmmakers in Hollywood
Photo: Asian American Filmmakers The Lunar New Year, otherwise known as Chinese New Year, was recently celebrated on February 12th. While the Gregorian calendar declares January 1st as the first day of the new year, and has since become the most widespread day of...
