It’s time for another episode of your new favorite podcast, The Cooler!
This week, we talk about how Zootopia is surprisingly the most woke movie of the year:
In Tackling Bias In Policing, ‘Zootopia’ Veers Into The Uncanny Valley
For the past two weekends, the biggest movie in America has been an ambitious exploration of implicit bias set in a police department, an unmissable sign of how broadly saturated this conversation has become. Of course, the characters grappling with all this in Zootopia are talking rabbits and foxes and lions, making all this topicality easier to swallow.
We talk about what everyone shies away from talking about: money!
We discover how feminist the production behind Britney Spears’ Crossroads was:
Not a Hit, Not Yet a Cult Classic: Shonda Rhimes on the Making of ‘Crossroads’ | Broadly
In interviews with Broadly, the women who wrote, directed, and produced "Crossroads" reflect on creating a small-budget film with Britney Spears-who only requested tuna Lunchables and edamame on set.
Extra credit homework: Read my live blog of the clunker masterpiece:
Crossroads: A Live Blog of Britney Spears’ One and Only Movie
We asked which pop star crossover movie we should live blog and you unanimously picked Crossroads, Britney Spears’ one and only movie! Ask and y’all shall receive: Baby versions of Britney Spears, Zoe Saldana and Taryn Manning dig into the Earth to bury some super secret trinkets.
And we cap things off with not one, but two pop diva throwbacks:
Until next week!
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