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USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative released a study today examining the diversity of Netflix ’s original content. If anything the study could be summarized by Dr. Stacy L. Smith who said in a video: “Inclusion happens when women are given the keys to the kingdom.” “I rarely have anything positive to say,” said Dr. Smith said during a symposium for the unveiling of the Netflix study. “This report was a bit of a reprieve from my typical rollout of information.” Dr. Smith was joined on the virtual panel by Netflix’s Bela Bajaria , Vice President, Global Series; Scott Stuber Vice President, Global Film; as well as Tigertail director Alan Yang and Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom director George C. Wolfe . The USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative studies diversity in entertainment and has released numerous studies and reports when it comes to representation . Netflix commissioned Smith and initiative to study for its original, English-language series and film … [Read more...] about USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative Releases Netflix Diversity Study, Finds Women Of Color Are Critical Component Of Inclusion

Careful. Spoilers ahead if you haven't seen Episode 8 of WandaVision yet! This week's episode is majorly about providing answers to questions we have mulled over for long- why sitcoms, did Wanda already have powers before being experimented on, where are Billy and Tommy, etc. But the real shocker of the episode is hidden in its mid-credit scenes which truly takes our breath away- [SPOILER ALERT] the real Vision being brought to life but as a different version of him which sets up a bleak future. While Wanda's storyline may or may not include a hero-turned-villain plot in the future, if Marvel Studios is once again going for twisting the comicbook storylines, especially Vision's, we might already have an Avenger who won't be fighting for what's right anymore. RELATED: WandaVision Fans Think Elizabeth Olsen Deserves All the Emmys After Last Night's Episode Wanda never stole the Vision's body The suspicions we reserved for SWORD's acting director, Tyler Hayward, are … [Read more...] about WandaVision Episode 8 Shocking Mid-Credits and Its Future Implications Explained

At the tail end of Time — the feature-length documentary that, since its heralded Sundance debut last year, has deservedly made its director, Garrett Bradley, one of the film world’s women of the hour — an extraordinary thing happens. The movie follows a black family living in the shadow of incarceration. At the center of that family is Sibil Richardson, known as Fox Rich, whose husband, Robert, is serving a 60-year sentence for a crime the two of them committed when they were young, newly married, and desperate. The film is a stunning, surprising mix of present-tense footage (filmed by Bradley and others) and video diaries Rich has been compiling over the course of 21 years — footage shot to show Robert all that he’s missing of his wife and kids while in prison. But then, in the end, comes the moment the two threads merge: Robert is released. And a film that has to that point been almost entirely defined by the man’s absence disarms us with his presence — and with the cosmic, … [Read more...] about A Matter of ‘Time’: Director Garrett Bradley on Making the Year’s Best Documentary

If you haven't seen WandaVision episode 8 yet, now is your chance to bail out. The following article contains massive spoilers for the episode and beyond. The penultimate episode of WandaVision has cleared the air around all the confusion over sitcom-themed events within the Westview anomaly. The events inside the Hex, as Darcy Lewis coined it, occur in time-jumps, while everyone inside along with the town setting draws inspiration from American sitcoms. Though the S.W.O.R.D agents couldn't figure out the reason for all of it being like sitcoms, the latest episode of the series titled, "Previously On", shows that it's all attached to Wanda's past. RELATED: WandaVision Episode 8 Shocking Mid-Credits and Its Future Implications Explained It was not entirely Agatha All Along Throughout the episode, Wanda is forced by Agatha Harkness to relive her past to determine how Wanda was managed to jinx an entire town in long-running continuous witchcraft. Yeah, that's true! … [Read more...] about Westview’s Sitcom Reality Finally Explained in WandaVision

M ike Love bounds up the stairs inside his massive Lake Tahoe home (10 bedrooms in all, 12 bathrooms, two elevators, not to be believed) and into a large walk-in closet stuffed to overflowing with garish, multicolored shirts and a gazillion baseball caps, many of them emblazoned with the name of his band, the Beach Boys . A suitcase rests on the floor. Love nods at it, prods it with his foot. “A lot more shirts are in there,” he says, “because, if you must know, I haven’t unpacked.” And why should he unpack? For the past 54 years, he and various versions of the Beach Boys , which these days include only him as an original member, have toured almost constantly. On his current outing, he has 172 dates lined up, cramming 19 European shows into 22 days this past December, for instance, and shortly thereafter flying back stateside to give the 6,500 citizens of tiny Avon, Colorado, the chance to hear all about California girls. From there, it’s onward, evermore, venues big and small, … [Read more...] about The Ballad of Mike Love