Your Favorite Movie is Racist

Dec 23 2020 13 ep. 45 mins 19
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All people are a little racist, all movies are made by people. So... in this series we are taking our favorite movies—and some of these are legit classics—and re-examining them within the context of an evolving world. Will our favorite movies hold up? Miles Kelly, Tawny Ochoa and Chris Paicely find out.

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GREMLINS | A Racist Little Christmas!

Dec 23 2020 51 mins  
Happy Holidays! For our 2020 Holiday Special we're talking about Gremlins, Joe Dante's 1984 classic starring Zach Galligan, Phoebe Cates, and Gizmo! We LOVE this movie. We also notice some mystical-Asian-xenophobia-black-guy-dies-first action going on. Let's talk!

STAR WARS SEQUELS | About a Boyega

Oct 29 2020 46 mins  
In the season finale of our show, we dive into the Star Wars Sequel Trilogy. These films had all the makings of something inclusive and special: a diverse cast, intriguing new characters and incredibly talented directors and writers. What we got was a mixed bag, with most of the best story stuff going to the white characters and muddled mix of story directions given to the PoCs. Oh

STAR WARS PREQUELS | It ain't just Jar Jar, y'all

Oct 23 2020 42 mins  
War! The Star Wars Prequel Trilogy tells the story of Anakin Skywalker's growth into a Jedi Knight and subsequent turn to the Dark Side of the Force. Also... more than 20 years later Jar Jar Binks still feels hella racist, as do those Trade Federation Viceroy guys. Watto too. Don't forget Watto. But yeah Darth Vader! WOOO!

STAR WARS | Is Chewbacca Mexican?

Oct 15 2020 46 mins  
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. . . . STAR WARS Episode X: The Racism DiscussedSorry. I'm not clever. But yeah we talked about the original Star Wars Trilogy. It's one of the biggest franchises of all time and it all started with these movies. We love them. We love them a lot. There's also some racism up in here, and we're talking about it. I've got a bad feeling about t

16 CANDLES | The Donger and the Gong

Sep 30 2020 41 mins  
In 1984, the world was introduced to John Hughes as a director in his first feature film, 16 Candles. This film featured Molly Ringwald and Anthony Michael Hall and kicked off an entire era of '80s teen romantic comedies, the stuff Hughes is known for to this day. It also plays a loud gong sound every time its only Asian character shows up. Yikes.

INDIANA JONES | "Here... take this spear."

Sep 23 2020 48 mins  
Who doesn't love Indiana Jones? These adventure movies kicked off in 1981 with Raiders of the Lost Ark and the entire series was directed by Steven Spielberg and starred Harrison Ford in one of his most iconic roles. Indiana Jones is a lot of fun. It's also a lot of colonization propaganda. Yikes! We had some things to say about this one.

THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY | The Thing About Tuco

Sep 13 2020 50 mins  
Sergio Leone's 1966 film The Good, The Bad and The Ugly is considered by many to be the definitive spaghetti western, featuring an incredible cast, an iconic score and groundbreaking cinematography. It also has brown-face.

Special Episode: Reflecting on Black Panther

Sep 05 2020 65 mins  
We're sad that the world lost Chadwick Boseman. We wanted to talk about a movie of his that means a lot to us, Black Panther. We'll miss him.

THE PRINCESS AND THE FROG | Tiana's Burden

Aug 28 2020 44 mins  
The Princess and the Frog brought us to the first black Disney princess in Tiana. It marked the end of an era as the studio had already made the leap to computer-generated animation and it was powerful moment in mainstream representation. So how could it be racist? Let's dig into it.

THE KARATE KID | Miyagi Poppins!

Aug 20 2020 56 mins  
After a two-week break, we're giving y'all a double-sized episode! We're discussing The Karate Kid (1984) and The Karate Kid Part 2 (1986), both directed by John G. Avildsen and starring Ralph Macchio and Noriyuki "Pat" Morita as Daniel LaRusso and Mr. Miyagi. WE LOVE THESE MOVIES, and we're having a layered conversation about the greatness and the racist of the series.