The U.S. Mint began circulating new coins this week in celebration of the United States’ 250th anniversary. These ...

Keanu Reeves starred in a controversial 2013 samurai fantasy that is exiting Netflix USA on January 1, 2026. See why it drew ...

Former writer for Game Rant, Grown Gaming, and GameCola. Dan watches movies and TV shows sometimes, which tends to be helpful when writing about them. He's also an avid player of video games, but ...

Religious art and films have been whitewashing the Bible for centuries. Although Jesus, Moses and other biblical heroes were all born in the Middle East, they’re usually depicted in paintings, movies ...

Diversity in film and television came into the spotlight in 2016 with #OscarsSoWhite. A USC study in 2016 found only about a quarter of speaking characters belonged to nonwhite racial groups. In “Reel ...

There have been a number of high-profile acts of whitewashing in films lately, the most egregious of which was Ghost in the Shell, which Matt Goldberg recently wrote about as just being flat-out ...

Hollywood has a long and problematic history of whitewashing, which is the practice in which white actors are cast in roles intended for non-white actors. The list of people who have contributed to ...

Matt Damon has been good in many roles: super spy (Jason Bourne), secret math genius janitor (Good Will Hunting), guy who needs to be rescued from space (Interstellar), guy who needs to be rescued ...

I’m departing from my usual question-and-answer format this week because I was blessed to have an interesting email exchange with one of my newsletter subscribers. I want to share it with you as an ...