Your Favorite Movie is Racist

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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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    • Dec 23, 2020 LATEST EPISODE
    • every other week NEW EPISODES
    • 45m AVG DURATION
    • 13 EPISODES


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    GREMLINS | A Racist Little Christmas!

    Play Episode Play 47 sec Highlight Listen Later Dec 23, 2020 51:26


    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

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 29, 2020 46:06


    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, Disney... Oh, Lucasfilm... Oh, whoever...

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

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 23, 2020 42:44


    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?

    Play Episode Play 46 sec Highlight Listen Later Oct 15, 2020 46:51


    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 this.

    16 CANDLES | The Donger and the Gong

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 30, 2020 41:36


    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."

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 23, 2020 48:15


    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

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 13, 2020 50:44


    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

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 5, 2020 65:09


    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

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 28, 2020 44:55


    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!

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 20, 2020 56:32


    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.

    PULP FICTION | Quentin's Favorite Word

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 6, 2020 33:48


    Pulp Fiction came out in 1994 and shook up the movie world with groundbreaking style, brilliant dialogue and dope storytelling choices. It helped launch director Quentin Tarantino to the top of the indie filmmaking world. It also contains some choice words and scenes worth discussing on a show about racism in movies. LET'S GO!!!

    THE SHINING | Who will cry for Dick Hallorann?

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 29, 2020 39:28


    Elevated horror. Stanley Kubrick's 1980 film, The Shining, helps define that term. It's a masterwork in directing, acting, and the art of building an unsettling atmosphere full of tension and dread. It also has one of the most tragic examples of the magical negro trope. Where does this masterpiece in film sit with us, knowing it also perpetuates one of the storytelling world's most complicated forms of racism?

    ALIENS | Let's talk about Vasquez

    Play Episode Play 24 sec Highlight Listen Later Jul 21, 2020 30:08 Transcription Available


    So... we LOVE this movie... but they also painted a person brown. So conflicted. In their debut episode, Chris, Tawny and Miles dive into James Cameron's classic film Aliens, and explore one racially problematic element of the film. They then discuss whether the movie holds up in spite of that one notable problem.

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