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Learning from the Diaspora Community of In the Heights
The streets are music and the stars are made of fireworks; the coffee isn’t coffee but it’s love con leche,…
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A Tale of Two Heroines: Revisiting the Past with Gone with the Wind (1939) and The Wizard of Oz (1939)
In the year 1939, two blockbuster movies burst onto the big screen in brilliant technicolor, forever changing the face of…
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Hamilton: Racial Reconciliation or Revolutionary Revisionism?
Three years ago, I was mortified when my teenage daughter became obsessed with Lin-Manuel Miranda’s award-winning Broadway musical Hamilton, with…
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The Beloved Bombs of Paul Williams: Phantom of the Paradise (1974) Meets Bugsy Malone (1976)
Paul Williams was on quite a roll in the early 1970s. He’d written monster hits for groups like The Carpenters…
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#190 – Bohemian Rhapsody and Shuffling the Facts
On this episode of the Reel World Theology Podcast: While wildly popular with audiences, Bohemian Rhapsody, the latest Queen/Freddie Mercury…
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Review| A Star Is Born
I have a confession to make. I haven’t seen any of the previous A Star Is Born iterations. I watched…
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#185 – A Star Is Born and Assigning Blame
On this episode of the Reel World Theology Podcast: After a trailer that brought cheers (and even possibly tears), it…
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#139 – Baby Driver and Subversive Cultural Privilege
On this episode of the Reel World Theology Podcast: It’s that wonderful time of the year when we get to…
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