- StyleBen Arnold
Disney+ provides on-screen warnings to viewers over 'outdated cultural depictions'
Disney+ is showing on-screen disclaimers before some of its older movies, warning viewers that they contain 'outdated cultural depictions'.
- StyleSam Ashurst
'Shazam!' set to topple 'Dumbo' from the top of the UK box office
Man baby will take down flying elephant.
- StyleSam Ashurst
'Dumbo's Eva Green thinks a 'Bond 25' flashback could be “cheesy” (exclusive)
Don't expect to see Vesper Lynd again.
- StyleBen Arnold
'Mary Poppins' chimney sweep 'blackface' dance is racist, claims academic
The chimney sweep dance in Mary Poppins, led by Dick van Dyk’s affable jack-of-all-trades Burt, harks back to ‘blackface’ tropes, an academic has claimed. In an article in the New York Times, Daniel Pollack-Pelzner, a professor of English and gender studies professor at Oregon’s Linfield College, has said that in the book by PL Travers, the sequence signifies ‘racial panic’. Pollack-Pelzner flatly calls the scene ‘blacking up’, and while it may seem innocuous, it has other more troubling connotations.
