The founder of a black hair-care empire supported the NAACP and the Tuskegee Institute, helped preserve Frederick Douglass’s home. She also tried to used her prominence to stop lynching.
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Television series Stateless examines our treatment of asylum seekers through ‘people like us’. It also highlights how far conditions for people transferred to offshore detention have deteriorated.
The streaming giant will struggle to continue its share price march otherwise
In Southeast Asia multiple streaming companies are vying for market share.
With commercial broadcasters threatening to thumb their noses at local content quotas, it’s time government finds new tools appropriate for the 21st century television environment.
From Super Bowl ads to Netflix documentaries, the complicated issues of criminal justice are portrayed in simplistic and highly political ways.
The Goop Lab obscures the distinction between entertainment and evidence.
Binge-watching is commonly seen as related to media content addiction. It usually occurs when an audience watches a series of episodes streamed through the one platform.
Since medieval times, animals have been used by storytellers to teach humans about themselves.
Alternative therapies have a lot to offer consumers. The Goop Lab only serves to set back the wellness cause.
Algorithmic forces fuel cancel culture. Paradoxically, they’re also used to rehabilitate those who have been canceled.
In his Golden Globes acceptance speech, Parasite director Bong Joon-ho teased audiences about their unwillingness to watch subtitled films, highlighting the anglo-centric culture of film
Gwyneth Paltrow’s new Netflix series, The Goop Lab, raises serious questions about the spread of health misinformation as well as the conflict of interest the show represents.
‘EastSiders’ avoids the political histories and conflicts that haunt LGBTQ+ worlds — but homophobia and HIV/AIDS have not been eradicated.
The latest version of the Gothic vampire chiller is brought to you with the trademark humour of writers Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss.
The new Netflix film Two Popes focuses on the different outlooks of Popes Benedict and Francis.
For all its fart jokes and sight gags, ‘The Good Place’ belongs to a venerable philosophical and theological tradition.
Netflix’s competitors are multiplying, and they’re ambitious. After Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, and a dozen others, Disney+ has lauched, and Netflix is clearly in the crossehairs.
Although some have dubbed the flurry of new video services coming out as a ‘streaming war,’ the reality is very different.
With big theatre chains refusing to show Martin Scorsese’s new big budget mob movie, the future of cinema is looking a little dimmer.
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