‘The Last Duel’ Stars Reveal Process of Making a Medieval Tale Relevant

October 10, 2021October 11, 2021 Michael Lee

The timing and relevancy of Ridley Scott’s The Last Duel underscore how little has changed for women between its 14th century France setting and now. Based on a true story, the gripping period piece tells the story of a courageous Marguerite de Carrouges (Jodie Comer) who accuses squire Jacques Le Gris (Adam Driver) of rape. Though no one believes her accusations, her husband, Jean de Carrouges (Matt Damon), challenges his former friend, now bitter rival grueling duel to the death.

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New Trailer and Poster for Ridley Scott’s ‘The Last Duel’

July 20, 2021July 20, 2021 Mike Manalo

Sir Ridley Scott has given us some of the finest cinematic experiences of all time from Alien to Gladiator. There has been strong anticipation for The Last Duel, given the talent both in front of and behind the camera, and today, 20th Century Studios finally unveiled the first trailer. The film stars Matt Damon, Adam Driver, and the always amazing Jodie Comer. Take a look at the trailer for yourselves here:

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NRW Review: ‘Raised By Wolves’ Season 1, Episode 6

October 19, 2020May 15, 2021 Patrick Strange

Heyyyy! It’s Kuya P and I recently sat down with my NRW Crew of Loy Lee and Glenn Lawrence to review and discuss the HBO Max series, Raised By Wolves Season 1 — Episode 6. Check it out! You can catch Raised By Wolves currently streaming on HBO Max!

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NRW Review: ‘Raised By Wolves’ Season 1, Episode 3-5

October 15, 2020May 15, 2021 Patrick Strange

Heyyyy! It’s Kuya P and I recently sat down with my NRW Crew of Loy Lee and Glenn Lawrence to review and discuss the HBO Max series, Raised By Wolves Season 1 — Episode 3-5. Check it out! You can catch Raised By Wolves currently streaming on HBO Max!

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NRW Review: ‘Raised By Wolves’ Season 1, Episode 2

September 30, 2020May 15, 2021 Patrick Strange

The NRW Crew of Kuya P AKA Patrick Michael Strange and Loy Lee review and discuss the HBO Max series, Raised By Wolves Season 1 — Episode 2. You can catch Raised By Wolves currently streaming on HBO Max!

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NRW Review: ‘Raised By Wolves’ Season 1, Episode 1

September 29, 2020May 15, 2021 Patrick Strange

The NRW Crew of Kuya P AKA Patrick Michael Strange and Loy Lee review and discuss the HBO Max series, Raised By Wolves Season 1 — Episode 1. You can catch Raised By Wolves currently streaming on HBO Max!

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‘Blade Runner 2049’: More like Blade Snorer ZZZ

October 3, 2017November 27, 2019 Josephine Chang

In a time where old franchises are dug up from the grave, we now have Blade Runner 2049: the latest movie we never asked for but then Alcon Productions fought for the rights for 12 years and here we are. Because after all, there’s always money in nostalgia.

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Overplaying the Whitewashing Card with The Martian

October 9, 2015October 12, 2015 Edward Hong

Back in June, our NOC mastermind Keith Chow wrote a probing article about how a Korean American character was being whitewashed in the film adaptation of the Andy Weir novel The Martian.

Now that the film has been released for over a week — with considerable box office success, trade publications like Deadline and Variety, among others have released articles about how the Asian American media watchdog group, MANAA, has followed Keith’s lead and declared the film to be guilty of whitewashing:

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Asians Get #EmmaStoned (Again) in The Martian

June 9, 2015November 6, 2015 Keith Chow

Last week, we spent a lot of time on the blog discussing the erasure of people of color — particularly Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders — in movies like the upcoming Doctor Strange or the recently released Aloha. I was even asked to talk about whitewashed casting on outlets like HuffPost Live and The Rundown on msnbc. And frankly, getting outraged over Hollywood being racist is kind of exhausting. Fortunately, I was able to take solace knowing The Rock crushed Aloha at the box office and that James Wan would be directing Jason Momoa in Aquaman. There’s nothing like a good genre flick to cleanse the palate after a week of justified moral outrage. Take the new sci-fi thriller The Martian — which just had a pretty cool trailer drop yesterday. Surely, there won’t be anything controversial here? Oh wait, this is Hollywood. Crap.

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Everything Wrong with Christian Bale as Moses

August 4, 2014April 12, 2019 Guest N.O.C.

by Dion Beary

I’m throwing a temper tantrum over this one. Christian Bale cannot play Moses. No. I know arguing against the whitewashing of a Biblical character is a lost cause, and wandering into any mainstream Christian church decked out with portraits of a blue-eyed Jesus Christ should indicate that the tide isn’t changing anytime soon, but I still find myself just a little more perturbed than average to see Batman play the savior of the Hebrews.

Maybe it’s because in recent years we’ve seen a new wave of white outrage against racebending traditionally white characters. Racebending refers to altering the canonical race of a character. Whitewashing is a type of racebending wherein non-white characters become white or are not included whatsoever. For simplicity’s sake, this piece will use the term whitewashing to refer to that absence of colored folks, while racebending will be used to refer to white characters becoming non-white. Those aren’t exact definitions, but hey, if Christian Bale can play Moses, then I can bend a couple of rules too.

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