| While movie theatres continue to struggle financially, the amount of quality streaming options for your movie nights keeps on growing. We’ve reviewed great new films like Target Number One, about one journalist’s mission to expose corruption in the Canadian and Thai legal systems, and perhaps not-so-great films like Tom Hanks’ Second World War thriller Greyhound. We’ve also taken a look at the politics of Gone With the Wind and a deep dive into why classic cop dramas may be overdue for some critical analysis. – Claire Porter Robbins | | | | | | | | | | Can cop shows be reformed? They’re television’s most popular and durable genre – and most problematic. Months before George Floyd was murdered and anti-Black-racism, anti-police-brutality protests erupted around the world, a comprehensive study called “Normalizing Injustice” was circulating among every TV writer, producer and network executive in North America. Published in January by Color of Change Hollywood, the study (the abridged version is 38 pages) describes in detail how police procedural series not only paint cops as heroes and justify violence, but also “exclude writers of colour, miseducate people about the criminal justice system and make racial injustice acceptable.”
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