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Learning from the Diaspora Community of In the Heights

July 12, 20210

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)

July 17, 20200

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?

March 11, 20200

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)

July 19, 20191

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

November 20, 20180

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

October 16, 20180

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

October 10, 20180

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

July 10, 20173

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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