Click here to read my review of Moonlight.

​Moonlight shows us all the troubles that one boy goes through as he grows up feeling like he’s a homosexual. It is always a confusing place to be when you are young, when you feel uncontrollable romantic desires towards someone of the same sex, and yet are not mature enough to know what to make of it, especially when the other kids at school pick on you because they can sense that you are different.

So imagine how much harder it would be if somebody on the autism spectrum grew up thinking that they were gay or a lesbian?

Six-Word Lessons for Autism Friendly Workplaces, Lesson #31: Discrimination Can Surface in Various Forms.

Just like in Moonlight, a boy can become a fast subject of bullying because he’s different in two different ways: skin color and sexual orientation. But in the case of this movie, he’s in an all-Black school, but still has one of these differences from the crowd. Yet imagine if he was in another school of mostly White students, how much more the bullying would get to him? In that same way, anybody who is both autistic and gay would become a walking dartboard for bullies. Yet it’s different in the case of being autistic rather than being Black because those on the spectrum have a harder time putting their concerns into words.

“Do you want to know how I got these scars?”
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Nine years later, the Joker’s story still plagues our imaginations. He does give us two backstories to his scars, neither of which are the real reason for his scars. Fans’ imaginations since then went wild in generating a background for the Batman’s greatest foe, the most liable theory thus far being “otter pops.”

Now, I shall propose my own theory.

The Joker was born George William Berkowitz, son of Metropolis’ Mayor Frank Berkowitz. Before Superman’s uprising, Mayor Berkowitz ran for office during a time of terrorist struggle in Metropolis. Within his first year elected mayor, a horrific terrorist attack blew up Metropolis Elementary. George got out okay but his mother, one of the school’s nurses, never saw daylight again. From there, Mayor Berkowitz set up the Metropolis Terrorist Initiative, which sent the troops into 24/7 surveillance around the city borders. The people’s stable minds worsened as the army declined into greater financial debt. As a plus, the crime rate in Metropolis just continued to increase, for those terrorists were already in the city.

​Click here to read my original review on Zootopia.
Take a look at my ranking of all 55 of Disney's animated classics, and see where Zootopia stacks up with the others!​

We all know about the heavily blunt themes of prejudice and racism in Zootopia, and it’s no secret that the treatment between predators and prey disturbingly parallels our own society. Say whatever you can about the treatment between the police and Blacks, or politicians and immigrants, or virtually any religious group against a much greater body, but the one piece of unfair prejudice I would like to discuss relates to how everybody has some form of unfair opinions about people with autism.

Every day I come across people who look down upon me because they know that I am “different” from everybody else. Even if somebody is trying to be accepting and friendly to me, they still set me aside to give more attention to their other “normal” friends. I will admit, I am not much of a talker, and socializing is relatively difficult for me. You also could call me “not the most fun talker,” not to be self-degrading. But from my experiences out in a crowd, I often feel that although people may feel they’re accepting me and giving me a fair treatment, they really just say a few brief sentences, get uncomfortable, then move on to chat with someone else. Now, this doesn’t happen all the time, but it has still been common with many of my interactions. Despite people’s self-assumptions, they can still unintentionally shun a person with autism because of their blatant differences.

Click here to read my grading and review on Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales

My last trip to Walt Disney World was with my uncle in October 2016. Now naturally, whenever you’re at one of the Disney parks, Pirates of the Caribbean is one of those classical rides you simply have to go on every visit. As we were waiting in the outside portion of the waiting queue, we sure enough heard the famous Hans Zimmer score blaring at the entrance. I then made a snide remark to my uncle saying, “today’s generation of kids will never know the ride came first.”

​Well, turns out it applies not just to kids born after 2003, even those around my age completely believe the movie came first. Heck, my roommate, a nineteen-year-old, learned the truth recently, and in high school I had a big debate about it with one of classmates. Although I personally have very fond memories of going on the ride when I was really little, even having a 90’s Disney sing-along VHS featuring “Yo Ho a Pirate’s Life for Me.” So when I heard they were making a movie off of it, I immediately thought, “what?” Now, Disney had not long before then made a movie off another one of their attractions, The Country Bears, which I saw as nothing but another one of those “come and go” types of movies. The same went to Eddie Murphy’s celebrity vehicle based off The Haunted Mansion. So my reaction to a movie based off Pirates of the Caribbean did not grasp me much.

Click here to read my original review on ​Beauty & the Beast.

“This Disney film features their first exclusively gay moment!” “If Emma Watson wants women to have equal choice, freedom, and liberation, why is she wearing barely any clothes in Vanity Fair Magazine?” We all know of the controversy triggered by Disney to get more people talking about this movie, which if you ask me, contributes relatively nothing when you’re the most successful family entertainment industry in the world. So why do so many businesses and companies want to stir up attention based on sexuality?

In today’s age of mobile technology, information can circulate faster than you can take a breath, so talking about something to attract a plethora of mixed heated opinions guarantees greater attention given to the source. However, just because a business can generate revenue a certain way does not mean they should.
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To prove my point, I’ll explain it from the perspective of autism.

Click here to read my original review on Life.

Aliens. Hollywood’s always been obsessed with them. As far back as Georges Méliès’ A Trip to the Moon in 1902, the concept of life on other planets has been meticulously explored. Many film critics have pointed out numerous parallels between aliens and international relations, The Day the Earth Stood Still being a common example, but never pointed out a parallel that makes perfect sense: the similarities between aliens and autism.

Here are some examples:

War of the Worlds (1953)

Martians arrive with the intent of annihilating the human race. From the human’s perspective, they are here to cause chaos and mass hysteria. Think about how people looked at autism back in the 1950’s, as back then it was dismissed as the now unacceptable phrase, “mental retardation.” They too thought at the time that anyone who was mentally handicapped was a recipe for chaos in social order.

“That’s LA. They worship everything and they value nothing.“ Ironic how La La Land embraces exactly what it criticizes.

Damien Chazelle’s passion project has become perhaps the most definitive Hollywood movie in ages, expressing the very best of what moviegoing could possibly offer, as made for a new generation of artists and dreamers. Everybody has fallen in love with its atmosphere and music, from the critics to the Academy of Motion Pictures to the general public. I admittedly am one of those fans who adore La La Land‘s charm and musical score, although I still have to admit, underneath the dream-colored frosting, there lies a dangerous agenda by the cast and crew.
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Just a disclaimer before I go through the list, there will be spoilers. So if you have not yet seen La La Land, please stop reading now.

​Click here to read my original review.

Throughout this last decade, Marvel Studios has taken over the box office with massive hit after massive hit. Even after some close calls, they never fell to complete abysmal failure that permanently hurt their reputation. They even had plenty of imitators that never succeeded to get cinematic universes off the ground (I’m looking at you, DC).

So I, a film critic, should tell you guys something, watching everything in the MCU simply made me depressed, noticing mostly their repetitious predictability, accompanied by hardly subliminal racism. I mean, I can certainly respect what they get right, that is, the ability to keep fans of the franchise pleased over the years. I acknowledge that these movies are not intended to be Citizen Kane, just a mode of escape from daily life. But I am going to critique these films as art, which means I am going to say things about the Marvel Cinematic Universe that you’re probably going to hate reading. Thus, I have lots of unpopular opinions that are focused more on storytelling quality than entertainment.
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So, let the list commence!

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