Ma is neither great nor terrible, though its quality would certainly lean more towards the latter if not for the casting of and rewriting for Octavia Spencer, whose portrayal of a character not written to be African-American lends a subtext of tokenism and how victimization perpetuates victimization.
After a discussion of the film, some news on the direction of the podcast for the remainder of the year (SPOILERS: it’s horror).
It’s now at http://battleshippretension.com/i-do-movies-badly-get-out/
The audio is still failing to embed at BP, instead just displaying a lot of html code as if it were text in a paragraph tag. I typically go to the podbean site to listen to them first anyway, since they appear with an unpredictable delay later at BP.
You’ve gone right from People Under the Stairs to this, without a “Get Out” post here at BP.
It’s now at http://battleshippretension.com/i-do-movies-badly-get-out/
The audio is still failing to embed at BP, instead just displaying a lot of html code as if it were text in a paragraph tag. I typically go to the podbean site to listen to them first anyway, since they appear with an unpredictable delay later at BP.