Disney has a few long-standing traditions for its princess movies, and Moana breaks nearly all of them. Moana (Auli’i Cravalho) isn’t white, isn’t getting married, and isn’t even really a princess. Moana comes after Disney and Pixar struggled to create female leads that are satisfying and without gender or race based criticism; in 2010, Tangled featured Rapunzel, a
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In the very last months of the dumpster fire that was 2016, Disney pulled out the much anticipated Moana for their holiday release. Set in ancient Polynesia, Moana follows its titular character (voiced by Disney’s Hawaiian native Auli’i Cravalho) on her journey across the ocean to restore the Heart of Te Fiti, which was stolen a century before by the
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In the months after Lemonade, we count our casualties. Jay Z found his masculinity squandered in his Twitter mentions (or, as I like to think of them, the dark alleyway behind his music career). Rachel Roy went under, taking confused civilian and cooking goddess Rachel Ray with her. The Beyhive, once again, was told “Jump”
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Originally posted 8/7/2016 on The Daily Slice. — Netflix’s animated series BoJack Horseman recently premiered its third season, and already the titular character has been added to the list of great television antiheroes. AV Club’s Danette Chavez compares BoJack (Will Arnett) to Tony Soprano and Don Draper. Despite being a horse at the center of a comedy, BoJack isn’t
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From scene one, Alex Garland’s experimental sci-fi film Ex Machina gives viewers a tense, high-paced experience filled with morally compelling undercurrents that cause viewers to question the nature of humanity itself–including and especially sexuality. The film follows Caleb (Domhnall Gleeson), a young programmer who works for The Blue Book, which is essentially this universe’s Google. Like most of the
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