everything.Whether they’re winners or presenters, A-listers have taken to the Academy Awards stage year after year, decade after decade, to voice their opinions on matters that plague the globe, hoping to enlighten the worldwide audience on whatever issue they feel so strongly about.The prestigious Oscars podium has become a designated, glorified soapbox for the so-called Hollywood elite to chime in on controversial topics including Hollywood’s gender pay gap, oppressed people’s rights and climate change — all subjects that have found their spotlight on the Dolby Theatre stage. This year’s star-studded ceremony — set for 8 p.m.
‘Woke-Panic Claptrap’: College Student’s NY Times Op-Ed Leads to Mockery Over ‘Self-Censorship’ Complaint
08.03.2022 - 03:57 / thenewcivilrightsmovement.com
her opinion piece published in the newspaper of record lamenting what she claims is an increase in “self-censorship” on college campuses.“Even as a liberal who has attended abortion rights protests and written about standing up to racism, I sometimes feel afraid to fully speak my mind,” Camp says.But Emma Camp isn’t just any University of Virginia senior. Despite claiming to be “a liberal,” she’s a writer at the libertarian outlet Reason and a former intern at the right-leaning Koch-funded Foundation for Individual Rights in Education.
FIRE’s latest tweet is apparently a defense of right-wing activist Andy Ngo, who the Columbia Journalism Review describes as a “discredited provocateur.”“I Came to College Eager to Debate. I Found Self-Censorship Instead,” is the title of Camp’s opinion piece – quite a coup for an oppressed college senior to be handed such a huge platform.“Each week, I seek out the office hours of a philosophy department professor willing to discuss with me complex ethical questions raised by her course on gender and sexuality.
We keep our voices lowered, as if someone might overhear us,” Camp’s op-ed begins.“A friend lowers her voice to lament the ostracizing of a student who said something well-meaning but mildly offensive during a student club’s diversity training. Another friend shuts his bedroom door when I mention a lecture defending Thomas Jefferson from contemporary criticism.
His roommate might hear us, he explains,” she writes.By the way, the link embedded in “a lecture” that Camp includes in her piece is to a far right-wing organization, Young America’s Foundation. It is considered among the preeminent groups for conservative American youth and teens, and if you want to know the state of
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thewrap.com
21.03.2022 / 02:43
‘Jujutsu Kaisen 0’ Leads Busiest Specialty Box Office Weekend in Months
While the threat of another industry-crippling COVID-19 wave still looms, the end of this past winter’s Omicron surge has given new hope to indie and specialty distributors trying to get moviegoers back into arthouses. But like the wider blockbuster scene, the biggest specialty success was driven by younger moviegoers with “Jujutsu Kaisen 0,” which scored another victory for Sony’s import wing Crunchyroll.
ok.co.uk
20.03.2022 / 15:33
Apprentice's Amy Anzel 'shunned' from final filming after Lord Sugar complaint
The Apprentice's fired candidate Amy Anzel was reportedly not invited to the show's celebratory filming of the spin-off following the final. Amy, 48, was fired by Lord Alan Sugar in the sixth week of the competition and reportedly reached out to producers to appear on the spin-off You're Hired following the show's finale filming.
deadline.com
15.03.2022 / 15:25
Top-Grossing Films Of 2021 Featured Slight Rise In Female Leads & BIPOC Women Representation Than 2020 Titles, Study Finds
Representation of female protagonists and BIPOC women in 2021’s top-grossing films have ticked up slightly, the latest study from San Diego State University’s Dr. Martha Lauzen finds.
msn.com
14.03.2022 / 05:39
Jane Campion leads roll-call of worthy winners as Baftas hit all the right notes
The Harder They Fall, starring Jonathan Majors, Zazie Beetz and Idris Elba. It is a headbangingly, flesh-splatteringly freaky debut from Jeymes Samuel that reclaims the African-American side of the genre. The drumbeat of brutality became a bit too uniform for me, but it it stylishly made.
variety.com
12.03.2022 / 20:23
Critics Choice Awards Nominees Offer an Escape from Troubled Times
Zoe Hewitt It’s easy — and perhaps a bit lazy — to posture that 2021 was a year like no other. In fact, not only was there a global pandemic, but the angst over film, theater attendance and the future of entertainment went along in lockstep.
deadline.com
06.03.2022 / 02:35
Friday Ratings: Ronda Rousey’s Return Leads Fox’s ‘WWE Friday Night SmackDown’ To Win
Friday saw WWE’s Friday Night SmackDown on Fox pin the demo wars, scoring an 0.5 to easily top the night’s field.