Statue Chat

The grand finale! Now that the awards are over here were some of my big takeaways of what went right, what went wrong, and where I think (or hope) Hollywood might be headed. And who knows? Maybe next year will be so well represented that I won’t even need to come back (don’t count on […]

In this episode I breakdown some of the aspects through which women are portrayed in film, and how the male domination of Hollywood shapes those representations. I break down two of my most feminist films of the year The Favourite and Roma, and I talk with Professor Catherine Page about the changing nature of the industry […]

In this episode I talk about the spectrum of African American representation, ranging all the way from Green Book all the way to Blackklansman (don’t worry, there’s plenty talk of Black Panther in there too). I also chat with Pauline Batista, a PhD student here at the University of Connecticut.

In this first episode I throw down a brief history of the academy awards and lay out my thesis: representation in movies is important, and how we reward movies for what they represent is a key way to analyze where we are as a culture.