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Maya Cade Has Carefully Curated More Than 200 Black Films All In One Place

The Black Film Archive highlights the many ways Black culture has shown up in films from the past, and tells you where you can stream them.

As Cade shared memories of watching films like “John Q” with her loved ones, she recalled with a smile how her mother would sometimes doze off in the theater yet would still want to hear her daughter’s perspective on a movie even if she herself didn’t catch much of it. For the Louisiana native, it was about being able to engage with her mom about something she loved.

“She’s going to ask me, ’OK, what were the themes?” she said. “‘What was the message? What did you get from this? What did it remind you of?’ We would have a full-bodied conversation, and that is so fundamental to me.”

[lerayon]

Nicole Beharie on ‘Miss Juneteenth’ and the Danger of Labels

The actress is back in a starring role after an ordeal on the Fox drama that began with a serious illness.

Posting the link to this story instead of reblogging the exerpt post floating around Tumblr. Nicole was misquoted in a few instances, and NYT has since issued corrections.

A great read. A LOT of what she says resonates.

[jellyfax]

I'll never forget how pop culture critic Candice Frederick's The Shape of Water Review: The Problem With Inter-Species Romance somehow managed to piss off who I can only assume are legions of (mostly white) uppity monster fuckers. All because she found the central romance to be an unengaging “male-gazey woman-on-monster relationship.” 

Over 70,000 notes on this post, because so many monster fuckers are so outraged over how not everyone always finds the monster-man <3 human-white woman romance cliche endearing, sexy, or interesting. 🙄

If most of these people reacting to this post actually read the review, they’d know that Frederick didn’t find the romance between Elisa and the amphibious creature to be convincing or compelling, and that assessment isn’t worth the absolute ire and ridicule she’s been getting. It’s also really important to note that Frederick is a black woman and as a black woman myself I can also relate to her criticism of the film and the focal cliche it so readily relies on.* I really get Frederick’s frustration with the often white-centric, stereotypically gendered, and forced Beauty and the Beast shtick, so outrage like this over her dislike of the film makes me think that...

You all really hate people who don’t care for the often white-centric, stereotypically gendered, and forced Beauty and the Beast shtick, huh?🤷🏽‍♀️

*Candice Frederick, the author of the article, is a woman! Many people in the notes of Blaine’s post are still claiming she’s a man because… I don’t know, they’ve convinced themselves that all women would lust after a fish man! 🤪

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Candice Frederick

Award-winning journalist, film blogger, Cinema in Noir Radio Co-Host. Contributing Film/TV Writer for Urban Daily and Bitch Flicks.com. I am also a member of the Online Film Critics Society and LAMB (Large Association of Movie Bloggers).