I Do Movies Badly

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).