"My Dead Friend Zoe" Is a Different Veteran Film
…(Utkarsh Ambudkar). The cinematic colonel of this project is writer/director Kyle Hausmann-Stokes. A veteran of the Army, he served five years as a US Army paratrooper in Iraq, earned a…
…(Utkarsh Ambudkar). The cinematic colonel of this project is writer/director Kyle Hausmann-Stokes. A veteran of the Army, he served five years as a US Army paratrooper in Iraq, earned a…
…the character of Orlando Colón (Ángel F. Rivera), an arrogant Puerto Rican businessman who frequently travels between the archipelago and New York City. Mostly speaking in Spanglish, his voice drips…
…the way, the film touches up, but never goes into, themes of white savior, colonialism, religious manipulation of native people, and working-class uprisings. Performances Vary from Amazing to Passable Zendaya…
…teaches us the U.S. history missing from the “mainstream.” The tome covers five centuries in the U.S. – “from the European colonization of the Americas to the 2020 election.” For…
…that context dives into issues like colonialism, xenophobia, sexism, transphobia, family separation, and anti-blackness — all of these different things, because for me you have to. As women who are…
At the end of the first episode of Netflix’s The Crown Season 6, Princess Diana (Elizabeth Debicki) enters her Kensington Palace rooms. She finds them filled with red and fuschia…
…another casualty of colonization. Which brings me to another point the film tackles surrounding our socio-economic-political label ‘U.S. territory’ (code for colony). Director and screenwriter Figueroa plays with juxtaposition, not…
Adriana Santos Adrienne Nicole Levario Alan Baez Alejandra Martinez, MSIS Alexa De La Fuente Alicia Ramírez Alyssa Lizarraga Ana María Enciso Noguera Andrea Cañizares-Fernandez Antionette Rodriguez Antonia Gutierrez Ashley Rivera…
…low expectations of Latinx art. It plays expertly with its elements, juxtaposing its comic elements with growing suspense to make a taught work of social commentary that lampoons colonialism. And…
White supremacy is scary as fuck. It’s the evil idealogy powered by the colonial world order, creating a hierarchy of humans as if light skin can equate to worth rather…