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Big Mouth Season 4
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Queen Latifah criticizes ‘Gone with the Wind,’ notes Hattie McDaniel’s Oscar win wasn’t what people think
Queen Latifah said she supports HBO Max’s controversial decision to remove “Gone with the Wind” from its library due to racial sensitivity.
The 1939 Oscar-winning film set during the Civil War was removed from the platform due to concerns over its depiction of black people from that era amid heightened sensitivity to racial issues sparked by the death of George Floyd. Floyd died while in police custody on May 25 after an officer knelt on his neck for more than 8 minutes.
Many were quick to deride the decision, noting that “Gone with the Wind” gave actress Hattie McDaniel an Oscar for her role, making her the first black American to win the coveted award. Although the streaming service eventually reversed its decision, Latifah, who plays McDaniel on Ryan Murphy’s Netflix series “Hollywood,” noted that it might be time to “let ‘Gone with the Wind’ be gone with the wind.”
In an interview with the Associated Press, Latifah noted that McDaniel’s Oscar win was far from the massive win for film diversity that it’s being touted as.
“They didn’t even let her in the theater until right before she got that award. Someone came outside and brought her into the auditorium. She wasn’t even allowed to sit in there. And then she had to read a speech that was written by a studio. You know that’s not what the hell she wanted to say,” The 50-year-old actress said.
She added: “Then after that, all she could do was play the same kinds of roles … So the opportunities at that time and the way that those in power in that business were relegating us and marginalizing us and not allowing us to grow and thrive after that was just terrible. And a lot of that is still around today.”
When the film returns to the streaming service, it will include an introduction from Jacqueline Stewart, a Turner Classic Movies host and professor in the Department of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Chicago.
Elsewhere in the interview, Latifah was asked her thoughts on the ongoing protests sparked by Floyd’s death. The actress and musician noted that the movement is a long time coming while highlighting how this current time feels different than previous generations of protests.
“This is like nothing I’ve ever seen in my life. And it’s also the fact that it’s happening worldwide. It’s time, you know? It’s time,”” she explained. “What an opportunity we have right now. I can only liken it to what it was like for me as a kid, as a teenager — young 20s, early ’90s when there was apartheid in South Africa, and we weren’t with that. And rappers, we stood up and used our voices, and everybody used their voices.”
Article via FoxNews
Netflix adds Black Lives Matter as a new genre after The Help concerns
“Action,” “Comedies,” “Dramas,” and, now, “Black Lives Matter.” Netflix has added BLM as one of its content genres on the streaming service.
On late Tuesday night, the company put the category under its “Genre” tab, which has a total of 24 different ways of sorting movies and TV shows. The genre will appear on the service globally.
“When we say ‘Black Lives Matter,’ we also mean ‘Black storytelling matters,'” the company said in a tweet. “With an understanding that our commitment to true, systemic change will take time – we’re starting by highlighting powerful and complex narratives about the Black experience. When you log onto Netflix today, you will see a carefully curated list of titles that only begin to tell the complex and layered stories about racial injustice and Blackness in America.” A Netflix spokesperson added in a statement to EW, “The Black Lives Matter collection speaks to racial injustice and the Black experience in America — and we hope that highlighting these titles can help increase empathy and understanding.”
Titles include Ava DuVernay’s documentary on racial inequality 13th, Spike Lee’s biographical drama Malcolm X, Barry Jenkins’s Oscar winner Moonlight, and former first lady Michelle Obama’s documentary Becoming. The social justice category will be a permanent addition to the service, though it may eventually be housed within a broader category called Black Stories which will offer a wider array of titles.
The move was made following customers noticing the 2011 movie The Help spiked to No. 1 in the U.S. on the streaming service last Saturday as protests supporting the Black Lives Matter movement continue to sweep the country.
Some have criticized The Help, which follows the experiences of black housemaids, as focusing on a “white savior” character and perpetuating Hollywood stereotypes. Star Viola Davis said in 2018 that she regretted her role in the movie. And actress Bryce Dallas Howard, who also appeared in the film, suggested people watch something else instead.
“I’ve heard that #TheHelp is the most viewed film on Netflix right now!” she wrote on Instagram. “I’m so grateful for the exquisite friendships that came from that film — our bond is something I treasure deeply and will last a lifetime. This being said, The Help is a fictional story told through the perspective of a white character and was created by predominantly white storytellers. We can all go further.”
y adding the BLM category, Netflix is making it easier to find films that tell racial justice stories (The Help is not one of the films featured).
It’s unclear if the category is a permanent addition to the genre list or temporary due to the subject’s topicality (it’s listed first on the genre list and not in alphabetical order like the others). Netflix did not immediately reply when asked for clarity.
Also Wednesday, Netflix has reportedly removed four comedy shows featuring outspoken Australian performer Chris Lilley from its service in Australia and New Zealand. Lilley’s work has previously been called racially insensitive.
Article via EW
DA 5 BLOODS Trailer (2020) Chadwick Boseman, Spike Lee Netflix Movie
From Academy Award® Winner Spike Lee comes a New Joint: the story of four African-American Vets — Paul (Delroy Lindo), Otis (Clarke Peters), Eddie (Norm Lewis), and Melvin (Isiah Whitlock, Jr.) — who return to Vietnam. Searching for the remains of their fallen Squad Leader (Chadwick Boseman) and the promise of buried treasure, our heroes, joined by Paul’s concerned son (Jonathan Majors), battle forces of Man and Nature — while confronted by the lasting ravages of The Immorality of The Vietnam War.
Netflix drops ‘Filthy’ trailer for Jeffrey Epstein docuseries
Article via NYPost
Netflix has dropped the trailer for “Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich,” a four-part docuseries about the deceased millionaire pedophile and the myriad of women who fell victim to his international sex trafficking ring.
“Stories from survivors fuel this docuseries examining how convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein used his wealth and power to carry out his abuses,” reads a short bio from Netflix for the series, available May 27.
A trailer released on YouTube Wednesday spans more than the late financier’s sex crimes and accusers, also going into his conspiracy theory-fueling August death by hanging following his July arrest. The series will also reflect on the larger #MeToo movement.
The brief look into the forthcoming show features shots of Epstein’s private Caribbean island, nicknamed “The Pedophile Island” for what one voiceover describes as an “ever-revolving door” of young girls, in a case another voiceover dubs “one of the worst failures of the criminal justice system.”
The series is directed by Lisa Bryant, executive produced by filmmaker Joe Berlinger of “Conversations With a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes” and based on author James Patterson’s best-selling 2016 book, “Filthy Rich: The Shocking True Story of Jeffrey Epstein.”
The coronavirus quarantine hasn’t quelled interest and ongoing revelations in the Epstein case. This month, Epstein’s cell buddy Bill Mersey revealed that he believed Epstein’s death was a suicide, an accuser came forward saying Epstein flew two girls from the UK to the US — suggesting for the first time that the tycoon and his co-conspirators went after UK girls — and Harvard officials admitted that Epstein maintained his own private office at the Ivy League school for a decade following his 2008 conviction for sex crimes. Last month, a petition to remove Epstein’s alleged enabler Eileen Guggenheim from the New York Academy of Art board gained steam though Guggenheim vigorously denies the allegations.
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