Did the beloved 1980s teen classic The Karate Kid perpetuate Orientalist stereotypes?
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How did a musician whose songs were suffused with messages of anti-capitalism and anti-imperialism become so commercialized?
Jurassic Park was released on the big screen in June 1993 and changed cinema for good.
The latest movie to take on this classic story sentimentalizes history in the name of inspiring religious devotion.
At the end of the 1925 movie ‘Red Kimono,’ the protagonist, Gabrielle Darley, throws away her garment and moves on to a better life. Real life is more complicated.
Rolling Stone gave this modern adaptation of Twelfth Night one star – but She’s The Man is actually an intelligent and nuanced look at the performance of gender.
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