When Justice Isn’t Just – Racial Justice Still Eludes
When Justice Isn?t Just tries to show a few of the issues around the question of race. However, its forty-two minutes is not nearly enough to truly be effective.
When Justice Isn?t Just tries to show a few of the issues around the question of race. However, its forty-two minutes is not nearly enough to truly be effective.
In Disney’s live-action adaptation of?The Jungle Book, veteran action director Jon Favreau pushes young Neel Sethi through the paces as Mowgli, with the help of a few voices you’ve heard before. Yes, the story is primarily the same to the original 1967 animated classic about the boy raised by wolves. But in the end, families…
For all of the parents who wish their kids would love?Star Wars, and for all of the kids who want to see something more their speed,?Star Wars Rebels?exists. In the space between?Revenge of the Sith?and?A New Hope,?Star Wars Rebels?explains how the Empire seeks to eradicate the Jedi and all who would stand with the Rebellion,…
Louisa Clark (Game of Thrones’?Emilia Clarke) desperately needs a job to help support her family. Unfortunately, she has little to no experience in the job she backs into: that of caregiver for permanently paralyzed ex-banker, Will Traynor (Sam Claflin,?The Hunger Games?and?Huntsman?franchises). What the two experience over the next few months is full of love and…
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