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A VCR never sold my private info to a nazi

www.washingtonpost.com/business/202... NPR receives $113 million from two donors after federal funding cut

Bluesky has been glitching all day long like a desktop PC that's been using Limewire to download music, but if and when you do see this? I wrote this for @pajiba.com about Usher and Chris Brown announcing that they are going on tour together, and how R&B fans have been reacting to this news.

V&A censored catalogues after demands from Chinese printing company https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2026/apr/14/v-and-a-censored-catalogues-demands-chinese-printer

NEW REVIEW — Rom-com #YouMeAndTuscany deserves more than its modest box office opening weekend :/// This is such a joyful (and inclusive!) movie to see in theaters with other folks laughing beside you. See it IRL if you can, it won't be as fun at home: www.mediaversityreviews.com/film-reviews...

Octavia E. Butler, 1998:

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04... I worked behind the scenes with Iskandhar Razak on this one. As a talking head and giving him access to research and putting in contact with cosplayers, photographers, and events. It's not a bad look at cosplay in Australia

NEW REVIEW — Next weekend, Bob Odenkirk's #Normal hits theaters. It's an interesting mix of both regressive stereotypes and progressive inclusion. Read more: www.mediaversityreviews.com/film-reviews...

This sounds great 👀

I've written and co-edited a whole stack of film crit books since 2011, with two more coming this year. If the intersection of genre (especially horror and exploitation) and genre is of interest, gee whiz do I have the books for you 💜 horrornonna.com/books/

Like. Come on. Science is cool, and scientists are cool

NEW REVIEW — With #TheBoys' final season set to air next week, we looked at its more inclusive spin-off, #GenV, which set up a lot of what's to come. A worthy binge-watch to prep for the Prime Video series' conclusion. www.mediaversityreviews.com/tv-reviews/2...

NEW REVIEW — We don't give out A's at Mediaversity every day, but ultra-likable #K-POPS deserves. See how the film navigates the sometimes rocky waters of Black identity in K-pop: www.mediaversityreviews.com/film-reviews...

G is for Geode. And that's good enough for me.

Star Trek figured this out thirty years ago. It's not hard. Even an old, drunk Klingon got it.

Please enjoy the two minute crucible that is this turtle trying to get on to a log that other turtles are on.

Bad immigration economics assumes every extra person is one less seat. Good economics notices they also bring a seat, a side dish, and demand for the bloke selling drinks. The first story is fear; the second is how economies work.

eddie murphy and dan aykroyd (in blackface) being responsible for one of the roots of ballroom culture was not on my bingo card.

NEW REVIEW — I knew ballet dancers were hardcore, but this is next level 😂 Our reviewer Weiting Liu looks at the #SXSW26 film (which is now available on Prime Video). I love a feminist action romp, with disability representation to boot: www.mediaversityreviews.com/film-reviews...

NEW REVIEW — Hockey fans get another blip in the genre of hockey movies with remake #Youngblood, which just came out on VOD yesterday. Sadly, though, it's a slog: www.mediaversityreviews.com/film-reviews...

You either have this sort of political juice or you don't. Cannot be taught.

#ProjectHailMary coming out in theaters this weekend 👀 It's a lot of fun, but not especially inclusive: www.mediaversityreviews.com/film-reviews...

Great review of #ProjectHailMary from @mediaversityreviews.com! www.mediaversityreviews.com/film-reviews...

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NEW REVIEW — #RemindersOfHim exceeded expectations at the box office, opening at $18 million last weekend. It's a mixed bag for inclusiveness, with both good and meh areas: www.mediaversityreviews.com/film-reviews...

the billionaires are not ok

"What does it say about 2026 that people are getting sliced and diced in every other movie at SXSW, often by losing fingers?” writes @briantallerico.bsky.social in his SXSW Dispatch which covers CHILI FINGER, KILL ME, and FAMILY MOVIE.

NEW POST — The #Oscars are nearly here! In anticipation, we've ranked all of this year's #BestPicture nominees in order of their inclusiveness. See which film we're rooting for to take home the statue ... medium.com/cinemania/di...

Is nothing sacred?

NEW REVIEW — Opening next weekend (and receiving rave reviews so far) is the highly enjoyable action/space/comedy film #ProjectHailMary. But there's some interesting stuff around representation I wanted to dig into: www.mediaversityreviews.com/film-reviews...

I LOVE BOOSTERS: Keke Palmer steals the heart of Boots Riley’s silly, scathing, and bittersweet skewering of fahsion and capitalism. It's galaxy-brained, go-for-broke cinema with a recurring surreal flourish that really stuck with me📽️ My #SXSW26 review @thewrap.com: www.thewrap.com/creative-con...

Writing my review for THE SECRET AGENT was fun for me because I had to figure out what out of the many layers that make it such a tertific film like the characters, set design, and cultural and pop-cultural references that I could put in without going too indepth and spoiling too much.

NEW REVIEW — @carriecnh12.bsky.social gives Mediaversity its top-rated #Oscar #BestPicture nominee, #TheSecretAgent 😄 Read on to find out why: www.mediaversityreviews.com/film-reviews...

[March 12th, 1946] BREAKING: Judy Garland gave birth to her first child, a six-pound ten-ounce daughter named Liza Minnelli, at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital. The father is director Vincente Minnelli.

I should probably not be up late wondering about my life again

NEW REVIEW — @clintworthing.bsky.social takes a look at autistic representation in #Oscars #BestPicture nominee #Bugonia. Read on: www.mediaversityreviews.com/film-reviews...

Amazon MGM continue to omit their logos and copyright lines in their posters and ads for upcoming movies, to avoid people knowing its theirs lest they stay home and wait for Prime. Moviegoers do not stay dumb forever; sooner or later they'll add 2+2 and figure out no logo = streaming in 60 days.

Between this and #EverythingEverywhereAllAtOnce, cinematic rocks are getting their due 🪨 #ProjectHailMary

NEW REVIEW — The #Oscars are less than two weeks away! We're playing catch-up on #BestPicture nominee coverage, including #Frankenstein, which doesn't take any steps to modernize a tale that came out over 200 years ago: www.mediaversityreviews.com/film-reviews...

NEW REVIEW — As gorgeous as #TrainDreams is, it rubbed me the wrong way. Writer @supergavigator.bsky.social nicely explains what I was feeling in our latest Mediaversity review of #Oscar #BestPicture nominees: www.mediaversityreviews.com/film-reviews...

#EverybodyToKenmureStreet was one of my favorites at #Sundance this year, so I'm glad that it just got acquired by Icarus Films. Until then, it's making the festival rounds in Martha's Vineyard, Minneapolis, and a bunch of other cities this spring 🌸 www.mediaversityreviews.com/film-reviews...

"The BBC and the BAFTAs behaved appallingly, with horrific consequences for Jordan, Lindo, and Davidson" pretty much summed up my reaction to the events of last night before I read this very very good essay that reached similar conclusions in a very thoughtful way.

I really appreciate this TikToker with Tourette syndrome, Shay, for taking the time to educate so many of us (including me) about her disability and coprolalia in light of what happened at the BAFTAs with John Davidson when Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo were on stage. I learned a lot.

NEW REVIEW — As we catch up on #Oscars #BestPicture nominees before next month's big event, our writer looks at the inclusive, and not-so-inclusive, aspects of #SentimentalValue. www.mediaversityreviews.com/film-reviews...

New for subscribers only: Yuen Woo-ping returns with a familiar yet spectacular wuxia starring Wu Jing, Zhang Jin, The Other Tony Leung, Chef Nic, and Jet Li www.thechinesecinema.com/blades-of-th...

The left tried for decades to pass green energy subsidies, passed them, the subsidies worked, and now literally the entire planet's electricity grid is going to convert to solar+battery. It just doesn't feel like "tech" because it mostly produces kinda boring blue collar jobs instead of billionaires

The Silence of the Lambs turned 35 this week, and Buffalo Bill actor Ted Levine is finally speaking about its transgender backlash. For some of us, that reckoning is decades overdue.

NEW REVIEW — I watch a lot of romance, and there's almost always some level of handwaving away the genre's toxicity. I was grateful not to have to do any of that in #WutheringHeights, which is as kinky as it is empowering: www.mediaversityreviews.com/film-reviews...