1/4/2024 0 Comments Gotta kick it up movie online![]() ![]() With their guidance and some hard-learned lessons about believing in herself, Meg blossoms throughout the two-hour tale from a gawky, self-doubting pre-teen to a fearless, badass warrior who can fight darkness with goodness and light. ![]() And not much has changed since my teen years: In 2016, only 29 percent of on-screen protagonists were women, and just 14 percent of all female on-screen characters were Black. In other words: Starring boys, with some pretty cool girl characters as sidekicks (shoutout to Hermione!), but never any that looked like myself. While I have to give props to Disney for creating an array of diverse live-action TV movies throughout my childhood - ranging from Gotta Kick It Up to The Cheetah Girls (remember them?!) - the Blockbuster-level live action movies that came out in my pre-teen era were the likes of Harry Potter and Lord Of The Rings. But it was the casting of Reid as Murry that truly got me obsessed with what this could mean not just for me as a book lover, but moviegoers everywhere. And when they then shared in 2016 that Ava DuVernay was directing - the first Black woman to ever direct a $100 million movie - I nerded out doubletime. I'm a longtime fan of A Wrinkle In Time by Madeleine L'Engle, so when it was first announced in 2010 that Disney was doing a big screen adaptation, I nerded out. ![]()
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