SPOILER ALERT: This article includes specific details from Spring Awakening. You've been warned. Spring Awakening is one of my favorite musicals -- easily sits in my personal top 5 next to problematic fave Miss Saigon, the synth campiness of Phantom of the Opera,...
Before there were flames on the side of Madeline Kahn's face in Clue, Peter Sellers was doing full-on yellowface in the Robert Moore's whodunit? Murder By Death -- and we talked to singer, dancer, actor, and RuPaul's Drag Race icon Peppermint all about it! Set up...
I've never said so many "chlamydia" so many times during a press conference. In this different, BONUS episode of Problematic Fave, we bring you into the world of press conferences! I had the opportunity to moderate the press conference for the forthcoming comedy...
There are a lot of problematic films and TV series in Hollywood, but what about the industry itself? In this week's episode Dino-Ray Ramos chats Maureen Ryan, journalist, critic and author of the book "Burn It Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in...
To many, Revenge of the Nerds is an innocent cult classic underdog story from 1984 -- but it is kind of trash. Actually it's a lot of trash and we unpacked a lot of that garbage with film critic and podcast co-host of Unspooled Amy Nicholson! It's amazing how this...
I said BRRRR! It's cold in here! There must be a Problematic Fave in the atmosphere! We kick off season 2 of Problematic Fave with a live episode that was recorded at SXSW in March. We were more than happy to welcome actor Jojo T. Gibbs who chose to talk about the...
On January 18, 2018, Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal starred in Blindspotting, a hyphy-drenched, spoken-word feature navigating identity and socio-politica; issues in Oakland, California. Directed by Carlos López Estrada, the film received a positive ovation and...
"It's the aloha spirit," RuPaul's Drag Race winner Sasha Colby tells me in regards to her unbelievable kindness she has displayed throughout season 15. "It's definitely what is instilled in us as Hawaiians, being from there. The first thing you ask someone is, 'Oh,...
SPOILER ALERT: There are specific details about the Netflix series Beef in this article. In case you haven't heard, there's this show that everyone has been gushing about since it dropped on Netflix April 6. Lee Sung Jin's destined-to-be-an-Emmys-contender dark...
