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Disney It's Not Just Frozen: Most Disney Movies Are Pro-Gay
By preaching acceptance and questioning gender, the company's kids films offer a queer-studies crash course.
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Does Prince Charming Really Need to Be Reinvented?
Critics call Frozen's twist on the fairytale trope a much-needed corrective, but claiming Disney dreamboats are unrealistic or unhealthy just piles more shame onto young girls' fantasies.
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The Weinstein Company Oprah's Oscar Buzz and Hollywood's 'Sassy Black Lady' Problem
Winfrey in The Butler is a worthy contender for Best Supporting Actress, but a win would again show that the Academy only gives that award to one kind of black character.
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Glee's Finn Hudson Was a Revolutionary, Surprisingly Complicated Everyman
The late Cory Monteith transformed the high-school quarterback archetype by revealing it to be a performance—one that disguised self doubt and allowed for kinship with outcasts.
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Yes, Mad Men Is a Soap Opera—and That Shouldn't Be an Insult
Not all daytime serials are mind-numbingly silly, and many acclaimed TV dramas, like The Sopranos and Homeland, incorporate elements made famous by soaps.
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Where Is the Female Tony Soprano?
James Gandolfini changed the kind of characters who could anchor major TV dramas—but those characters overwhelmingly still must be men.
