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  • Poverty On The Big Screen

    Poverty On The Big Screen

    This article is my Donda. Spoilers warning for the films Parasite and The White Tiger. This year I had the time, finally, to watch 2019’s critically acclaimed film Parasite by Bong Joon-ho and the 2021 Netflix film The White Tiger by Ramin Bahrani. I told myself I’ll write something here on both and that was…

  • Loving Vincent

    Loving Vincent

    The title was inspired/taken from the 2017 Oscar-nominated film Loving Vincent, which explores the cause of Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh’s death (sorry to start with a dark note). Loving Vincent is the world’s first fully painted feature film. Yes! PAINTED. I didn’t know much about Vincent van Gogh before watching the film, but in…

  • Bridgerton: I have opinions

    Bridgerton: I have opinions

    Spoilers warning! The Gossip Girl reboot no one asked for is finally here! I wasn’t quite sure I wanted to watch it, I resisted it when it came out, but it turns out I’m a basic bitch who will watch anything on Netflix, the McDonald’s of streaming services, as long as it’s trending on Twitter.…

  • Christmas movies, capitalism and colonialism. Sorry.

    I’m here to shit on Christmas movies because a) I don’t like the idea of Christmas b) I don’t remember the last time I had enough “Christmas Spirit” to keep me joyful about the holidays for a whole month: I’ve spent the last 3 Christmases alone so, in a way, I don’t really care what…

  • Rethinking John Green

    I spend my days in sketchy corners of Twitter and YouTube where I get triggered to write about topics that probably no one cares about. But it’s fun so here we are. “To weird”, he said. “To weird,” we clinked cans and sipped Turtles All the Way Down, John Green I read a tweet about…

  • Wakandafication

    As usual, something happens on the internet and someone tweets about it and I say to myself, ‘that would make a great blog post topic’. I believe this is related to something Beyonce did or will be doing soon with Disney, but I’m not really a fan or a follower and I do not know…

  • AfRiCa iSn’T wHaT yOu tHInK iT Is

    At 4:30 am (May 17) I was on Twitter, as usual, trying to delay sleep at all cost (yes, I have issues). I then have a random thought about Nas Daily, so I decide to check if he’s still doing his travel the world project. If you don’t know who Nas Daily is; his real…

  • Looking for Home

    Looking for Home

    “So the days, the last days, blow about in memory, hazy, autumnal, all alike as leaves.” (Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Truman Capote) I finally watched Breakfast at Tiffany’s! (It is important to point out that I did not enjoy the depiction of Mr. Yunioshi. That was weirdly racist and quite painful to watch. But it’s good…

  • Chasing Happiness

    Just something on happiness and sadness.

  • Time to cancel the white savior complex

    In this article I talk about the white savior complex as seen in white savior films, the latest being ‘The Red Sea Diving Resort’ and try to show how these films reflect on reality and what needs to be done to “cancel” the white savior complex.