Alternative monitoring of popular culture ~ broadly defined ~ in the pursuit of deeper understanding
Thursday, June 27, 2019
Shaft (2019)
Tim Story's tribute to toxic masculinity, Shaft, gives filmgoers Samuel L. Jackson swaggering through frustratingly predictable gangland set pieces that portray him as invincible and his estranged FBI data analyst son (Jessie T. Usher) as an undersexed geek. Happy Father's Day.
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