This week, it’s all about an animated animal allegory for race relations, Britney Spears’ feminist film and money money money.
This week, we talk about how Zootopia is surprisingly the most woke movie of the year:
http://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2016/03/14/469914141/in-tackling-bias-in-policing-zootopia-veers-into-the-uncanny-valley
We talk about what everyone shies away from talking about: money!
We discover how feminist the production behind Britney Spears’ Crossroads was:
https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/shonda-rhimes-on-the-making-of-crossroads-britney-spears
Extra credit homework: Read my live blog of the clunker masterpiece:
http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2015/11/23/crossroads-a-live-blog-of-britney-spears-one-and-only-movie/
And we cap things off with not one, but two pop diva throwbacks:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0wbtk6_vpE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEauWw9ZGrA
Until next week!
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