Category: media

“Millennials, as a charming side effect of their wondrous sense of entitlement, don’t take any shit. Secondly, the future of the entertainment industry clearly lies in streaming, and real-time metrics do not lie. This will not just affect women, but people of color, gender-identity, and age. There won’t be any arguing with the amount the public loves and appreciates THEIR people and THEIR shows and THEIR movies.”

“While House of Cards tells us that politics is run by corrupt yet effective politicians — whose policy disagreements are settled by a measure of wits — our own political system makes dumpster fires look put together.”

“If the NFB’s enforced parity seems like a reasonable solution, it is because the larger industry is so heavily male that women filmmakers have begun calling for radical change, believing that the shortage of female directors behind the camera and the absence of strong female stories on screen are linked.”

“Games like Madness Returns and Far Cry invoke Alice to reach for a marketable tone, casting themselves into a higher plane of mordant cynicism, as if to say, ‘We’re dark, man, like this famous children’s story about death and drugs.'”

“Watching these women enumerate the times they’ve been called fat as a compliment parallels the series’ main strategy: each episode inventories and dramatizes the way the characters negotiate the difficulties they encounter in Accra.”

“Now, just as Internet television promises to make that competition more than a polite fiction, in swoops the CRTC with a form of price regulation. Second, it was a call that should have been left to industry: Surely it’s the job of the providers, not the regulator, to address unhappy customers – or face their cord-cutting wrath.”

“In fact, there were more women working in Hollywood in its first two decades than there are now, or have been at any time since. If Hollywood is ever to achieve gender parity in its studios and boardrooms, it should look back to its beginnings.”