After a rather interesting week that started with eyebrow-raising comments on diversity from Will Smith and ended with a controversial op-ed in the New York Times (dropped very quietly on Christmas Day) on why representation does NOT matter in the superhero genre, we shook off our post-Christmas food comas to ask, "What the hell is going on?"
Joined by:
Rebecca Theodore-Vachon: Film/TV contributor at Forbes, WatchLoud, Roger Ebert and Vulture. Co-host of @CinemainNoir.
Thelonious Legend: YA Urban SciFi/Fantasy Writer (Sins Of The Father) and host of the #BlackComicsChat podcast.
Imran Siddiquee: Filmmaker, speaker, consultant, film & media critic, contributor to Salon, The Atlantic and Bright Ideas.