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How Blindspotting challenges its audience to disbelieve stereotypes

There's a moment in Blindspotting when, if you were just tuning in, you might assume that an unhinged black man is about to shoot a police officer in cold blood. Collin (Daveed Diggs, most famous for originating the role of Lafayette/Thomas Jefferson in Hamilton on Broadway), donning a tanktop and baggy jeans while rapping about murder and privilege, is pointing a gun at a white cop (Ethan Embry) who is shaking with fear. Collin is enraged and, despite his friend Miles (Rafael Casal) — who is...

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You Know How I Got These Scars: How the Joker Writes His Own Narrative in ‘The Dark Knight’

(Welcome to The Dark Knight Legacy, a series of articles that explore Christopher Nolan’s superhero masterpiece in celebration of its 10th anniversary.)
There has always been a strange appeal to Heath Ledger’s The Joker in The Dark Knight, a playful yet formidable villain capable of making you laugh uncomfortably just as easily as he could throw you off a roof and skip away without so much of a second glance. It’s a fascination propelled by the fact that he not only walks around in a wrinkled...

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How ‘The Purge’ Became the Most Unexpectedly Important Horror Franchise of the Decade

The greatest trick The Purge (2013) ever pulled was convincing us at first that it is your run-of-the-mill home invasion thriller, directing us to think that the protagonists are the typical wealthy white family in the suburbs and the villains are the hoodlums in the streets who’ve waited all year to terrorize them without consequences. Sure, there is a moment early in the film which establishes that the Sandin family — led by mom Mary (Lena Headey) and dad James Sandin (Ethan Hawke) — may no...

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GLOW Season 2's Best Episode Highlights Tammé, But Also The Show's Biggest Flaws

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Spoilers ahead for GLOW Season 2 Episode 4. There's a lot to love about GLOW, the '80s-set Netflix dramedy inspired by the real-life amateur women’s wrestling show. Not only does it celebrate an underappreciated program that highlighted real women doing extraordinary things, but GLOW tells the personal stories of a diverse group of women who often don't get to spend time in the spotlight. For these characters, the show-within-the-show validates their dreams, no matter how...

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Claws' masterful subversion of the abortion storyline

You can picture it without much effort: a rusty bed, a young woman in distress, a callous doctor who points out the absence of the responsible man. Since Dirty Dancing deployed the abortion storyline in 1987, not much has changed.

That's what makes the most recent episode of Claws, the bombastic series centering on a five-woman squad of manicurists juggling their salon business with an increasingly outrageous money-laundering side hustle, so special. "Cracker Casserole," the second episode of...

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Haifaa al-Mansour Just Wants to Tell You a Story

It’s an image that has since been engraved in the minds of many women across the world. At this year’s Cannes Film Festival, filmmaker Haifaa al-Mansour stood proudly alongside women including Kristen Stewart, Ava DuVernay, and Léa Seydoux to protest gender inequality among storytellers throughout the event’s history. She walked arm-in-arm with her fellow female creatives to prove a point: That women are even more powerful when they are united and at optimum visibility.
This sentiment radiate...

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Hereditary and Ocean's 8

Welcome to our first ever LADIES NIGHT episode of Cinemaholics, hosted by Kimber Myers with special guests Alisha Grauso and Candice Frederick! The ladies took over our normal programming for a double feature review, starting with the new A24 horror hit, Hereditary, followed by the female-led heist spinoff, Ocean's 8.
00:03:10 – Hereditary review (Spoilers start at 00:24:20)
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Dear White People’s Antoinette Robertson Brings Complexity to One of TV's Most Polarizing Characters

Type Coco Conners’ name on Twitter and you’ll get a bunch of Coco superfans declaring their admiration for Dear White People’s oft-misunderstood overachiever alongside words like “queen"—and “villain." Depending on the day, you may give Coco a standing ovation or a side eye—either way, she will always have your attention. That’s a credit to the actress behind her character, Antoinette Robertson, who is quick to come to Coco’s defense if anyone calls her a such thing as “sellout.”
To say that ...

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Dear White People's Logan Browning Calls #TimesUp on Black Women as Constant Caretakers

For two seasons of Dear White People, Samantha “Sam” White has been an unapologetic advocate for justice at Winchester University, calling out white supremacy and every instance of oppression she encounters on her radio show—much to the fury of her white and alt-right counterparts. As Season 2 opens, Sam's frank honesty and no-nonsense attitude have turned her into a target for online trolls who want nothing more than to belittle and silence her.

It’s a familiar position for many black women ...

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Jeffrey Tambor is Trash: Talent and Genius Doesn’t Justify Abuse

There is no such art, no such glorious work of fiction, no such extraordinary performance, that excuses a real-life abuser.
By Candice Frederick
It’s been a mere eight months since women in Hollywood first brought Harvey Weinstein’s horrid history of sexual assault to the masses, and just as long since the #MeToo movement catapulted to the mainstream, ushering in a new era in which women’s voices, victims of men including Bill Cosby, Louis C.K., R. Kelly, Junot Díaz, Matt Lauer, and Brett Rat...

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‘Breaking In’ is Not the Badass Mom Thriller We (or Gabrielle Union) Deserve

It was just last summer when Halle Berry’s Karla Dyson took matters into her own hands when she jumped into her minivan and chased down a pair of villains who abducted her son in Kidnap. That marked the first time in far too long that we saw a woman of color — and “of a certain age” — centralized as a badass hero and a mom on the big screen. She was no longer merely the sidekick or the villain the main character (usually a white actress) knocks off within the film’s first 30 minutes. She was ...

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‘Dear White People’ season 2 shows how layered portrayals of black women make for the best TV

(Editor’s note: Spoilers for the second season of Dear White People ahead.)
There is a moment in season two of Dear White People that illustrates the dichotomy of what it means to be a strong black woman in today’s world. It’s when Samantha White (Logan Browning) is confronted by her white ex-boyfriend Gabe (John Patrick Amedori) about being seen as an “invincible badass.” She’s choosing to seem unaffected by vicious online trolls who attack her for calling out white supremacy, when she is ac...

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‘I Feel Pretty’ Might be the Whitest White Feminist Movie I’ve Ever Seen

“I Feel Pretty” is mostly an exasperating attempt to appeal to all women as it blatantly marginalizes others.
by Candice Frederick
I have seen most of Amy Schumer’s live action projects, including “Snatched”, which is an abomination for many reasons, including racist stereotypes. Like so many comedians, her best work is in stand-up, specifically on “Inside Amy Schumer”. Schumer’s work has helped normalize the idea that (white) women can be brash, unapologetic, feminist, and successful. She is...

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The Film Stage Show Ep. 290 – A Quiet Place

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Welcome, one and all, to the latest installment of The Film Stage Show! Today, Michael Snydel, Bill Graham, and I welcome Candice Frederick to our discussion of the horror film A Quiet Place, directed and starring John Krasinski and co-starring Emily Blunt.

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Sandra Oh Finds Her Power in 'Killing Eve'

Four years. That’s how long it took Sandra Oh, known to many as Dr. Cristina Yang on Grey’s Anatomy, to claim her next great role. That’s not to say the Golden Globe winner hasn’t kept busy since leaving the mega-hit Shondaland series. In fact, she’s been hard at work, jumping from one interesting character to the next on TV and in film, including a stint opposite Regina King on American Crime last year. It’s a period Oh refers to as “actively waiting"—she'd reached a point in her career wher...