Problematic Fave Dino-Ray Ramos
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- TV & Film
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Each episode host Dino-Ray Ramos will welcome a filmmaker, actor, creator or cultural figure to discuss a film or TV episode from the past of the guest’s choosing that is acclaimed, celebrated and considered a classic. We will discuss why the like the project but then do a deep dive and unpack how the film/series was enjoyable in the past, but upon revisiting there are details that are racist, misogynistic, homophobic, transphobic, and wildly cringeworthy when it comes to representation of marginalized voices...but for some reason it remains a “problematic fave”. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/problematicfavepod/support
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Peppermint - 'Murder By Death'
Before there were flames on the side of Madeline Kahn's face in Clue, Peter Sellers was doing full-on yellowface in the Robert Moore's whodunit? Murder By Death -- and we talked to singer, dancer, actor, and RuPaul's Drag Race icon Peppermint all about it!
Set up as a send up of the "old dark house" genre, the film had an incredible cast including the aforementioned Sellers in yellowface; the OG Obi-Wan , Alec Guinness; queen Maggie Smith; Columbo -- I mean, Peter Falk, the Bride of Frankenstein Elsa Lanchester; Eileen Brennan, who also starred in Clue as well as literary legend Truman Capote and James Cromwell in his first feature role!
It's a stacked cast -- and the movie is super-duper fun -- but the way they lean into the yellowface of it all makes it problematic, obviously. The movie also handles its female characters very interestingly and the real Asian who stars in the movie, Richard Narita, deserves some sort of award for having to act opposite Sellers' yellowface. There is also some queerness that manages to find its way in there as well as bizarre representation of people with disabilities.
Murder By Death is wild and Peppermint and Dino had a grand ol' time unpacking all of it!
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Peppermint
Instagram: @Peppermint247
Twitter: @Peppermint247
Dino-Ray Ramos (@dinoray on Twitter and Instagram) serves as host and producer of Problematic Fave. Brian Aguilar (@bee.rhi on Instagram) also serves as producer and editor of Problematic Fave.
DIASPORA: thediasporatimes.com; @realdiaspora on Twitter, Instagram
Marginal MediaWorks: @mrgnlmedia on Instagram
Send your "problematic faves" to thisisdiaspora@gmail.com and we'll share them on the pod with our guests!
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Dylan Adler - 'Kung Fu Panda'
If anything, the biggest takeaway from this episode of Problematic Fave with stand-up comedian and writer Dylan Adler (The Late Late Show with James Corden) it's that Tai Lung, the villain in Kung Fu Panda, is giving masc top energy and is a queer icon.
In this week's episode, we talk about the the 2008 animated feature starring Jack Black and Angelina Jolie and as delightful as it is, this classic is giving Orientalism for the children!
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Dylan Adler
Instagram: @dylanadler_
Twitter: @DylanAdler6
dylanaadler.com
Dino-Ray Ramos (@dinoray on Twitter and Instagram) serves as host and producer of Problematic Fave. Brian Aguilar (@bee.rhi on Instagram) also serves as producer and editor of Problematic Fave.
DIASPORA: thediasporatimes.com; @realdiaspora on Twitter, Instagram
Marginal MediaWorks: @mrgnlmedia on Instagram
Send your "problematic faves" to thisisdiaspora@gmail.com and we'll share them on the pod with our guests!
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Lagueria Davis And Aaliyah Williams - 'Barbie'
Greta Gerwig's Barbie starring Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling and a small town of pretty actors has been unleashed into the wild and there is a lot to be discussed -- and what better people to discuss this with than with Black Barbie: A Documentary director Lagueria Davis and producer Aaliyah Williams, a pair that has been living, breathing everything Barbie since this documentary about Black Barbie was born. Davis's aunt, Beulah Mae Mitchell worked on the Mattel assembly line and had a hand in changing the landscape when she asked her her boss Ruth Handler, the creator of Barbie “Why isn’t there a doll that looks like me?” The docu explores her story as well as the broader struggle for Black female representation in a world where worthy rarely means Black.
Davis and Williams, along with host Dino-Ray Ramos have LOTS of thoughts as they unpack this film that has been celebrated profusely, marketed aggressively, broken box office records, and caused some pockets of interesting conversation about the iconic doll.
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Lagueria Davis
@lagueriadavis on Instagram and Twitter
Aaliyah Williams
@theliyah1 on Twitter
@theliyah on Instagram
Black Barbie: A Documentary
Dino-Ray Ramos (@dinoray on Twitter and Instagram) serves as host and producer of Problematic Fave. Brian Aguilar (@bee.rhi on Instagram) also serves as producer and editor of Problematic Fave.
DIASPORA: thediasporatimes.com; @realdiaspora on Twitter, Instagram
Marginal MediaWorks: @mrgnlmedia on Instagram
Send your "problematic faves" to thisisdiaspora@gmail.com and we'll share them on the pod with our guests!
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Shar Jossell - 'Bringing Down The House'
Join us this week as journalist and We're... Just Like That podcast co-host Shar Jossell takes us on a journey through the Queen Latifah-Steve Martin feature comedy Bringing Down The House from 2003. We explore the profound problems, humor and surprisingly insightful examination of the influence of hip hop on the dominant culture that this movie serves. And yes, there are a lot of racist moments.
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Shar Jossell
@SharSaysSo on Instagram and Twitter
We're... Just Like That Podcast
DIASPORA: thediasporatimes.com; @realdiaspora on Twitter, Instagram
Dino-Ray Ramos: @dinoray on Twitter and Instagram
Marginal MediaWorks: @mrgnlmedia on Instagram
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A 'Joy Ride' Bonus Episode!
In this different, BONUS episode of Problematic Fave, we bring you into the world of press conferences!
Dino-Ray Ramos moderated a press conference for the forthcoming comedy Joy Ride directed by Adele Lim and written by Cherry Chevapravatdumrong & Teresa Hsiao. They were joined at the official press conference by the movie's stars Ashley Park, Sherry Cola, Stephanie Hsu, Sabrina Wu as well as the "sexy boys" Chris Pang, Rohain Arora, and Alexander Hodge.
This doesn't follow the regular Problematic Fave pod format as it is a press conference, obvi -- and it is a good ass time. The filmmakers and the cast have an unfiltered and also heartfelt conversation about the movie which explores self-discovery, friends and family -- and there's a lot of talk about chlamydia. Also, at one point, I think Sherry Cola says that Confucius was a top.
Enjoy!
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Problematic Fave is presented by DIASPORA and is created, hosted and produced by Dino-Ray Ramos. The series is also produced by Sanjay Sharma of Marginal MediaWorks and edited by Brian Aguilar.
Joy Ride: @joyridemovie
DIASPORA: thediasporatimes.com; @realdiaspora on Twitter, Instagram
Dino-Ray Ramos: @dinoray on Twitter and Instagram
Marginal MediaWorks: @mrgnlmedia on Instagram
Send your "problematic faves" to thisisdiaspora@gmail.com and we'll share them on the pod with our guests!
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Maureen Ryan Says To "Burn It Down"
There are a lot of problematic films and TV series in Hollywood, but what about the industry itself? In this week's episode Dino-Ray Ramos chats Maureen Ryan, journalist, critic and author of the book "Burn It Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood" which unpacks the toxicity of Hollywood. If you thought there were problematic people and systems in place in the film and TV industry, than this book will prove you right and then some.
Even though she unpacks a lot of the bad in Hollywood, she also gives hope with roads to making the industry less problematic -- it may take a while, but we gotta start somewhere. Nonetheless, we really get into the bad and the worse of it all and talk about our own experiences when it comes to working in an industry that we love, but clearly has a lot of problems that we hope to fix.
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Problematic Fave is presented by DIASPORA and is created, hosted and produced by Dino-Ray Ramos. The series is also produced by Sanjay Sharma of Marginal MediaWorks and edited by Brian Aguilar.
Maureen Ryan
Buy "Burn It Down Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood"
moryan.com
@moryan66 on Instagram
@moryan on Twitter
DIASPORA: thediasporatimes.com; @realdiaspora on Twitter, Instagram
Dino-Ray Ramos: @dinoray on Twitter and Instagram
Marginal MediaWorks: @mrgnlmedia on Instagram
Send your "problematic faves" to thisisdiaspora@gmail.com and we'll share them on the pod with our guests!
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Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/problematicfavepod/support