Hollywood Woketopia Podcast
by Sasha Stone
A look at our past films to help understand how Hollywood has changed over the past 20 years to reflect social justice issues instead of telling good stories. It seems that the film industry has abandoned the majority and that's a problem for them. Hollywoodwoketopia.com is run by Sasha Stone who also runs Awardsdaily.com, a site dedicated to the Oscar race, and sashastone.substack.com, which covers politics. www.hollywoodwoketopia.com
Episodes
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The Good, The Bad and the Ugly of “You Can See Everything”
Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s You Can See Everything is meant to be an intriguing examination of the relationship between disgraced wunderkind-scientist Elizabeth Holmes and her fiancé Billy Evans as they attempt a reputation-wash of the now-imprisoned Holmes. The Curse made me a fan of...
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The Odyssey is Peak Woke
After the teaser dropped for Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, the reactions were deadly to its box-office prospects. For a film that cost upwards of $250 million, the last thing it could be was boring. The chattering class mocked their accents, said it looked “like a slog,” and that could spell...
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The Odyssey Proves Woke Is a Feature, Not a Bug
Every so often, a moment in culture arrives, a Sydney Sweeney ad, or Project Hail Mary. Every time, we hear that the Woke fever has finally broken. Hollywood cares about the people again. Right? The same reason Kamala Harris is likely to be the nominee in 2028, the same reason the Democrats are...
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John Carpenter The Master: Halloween and The Thing
When I look back on the best horror movies, I do so with sadness and a sense of mourning for what once was and may never be again. Just take the year 1982 when so many great movies hit theaters, like E.T., The Year of Living Dangerously, and Blade Runner. But one movie that didn’t do so well at…
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Video: Halloween Horror -- Why The Shining is Still So Good
It’s October, and it’s time to celebrate the best horror movies, at least in my opinion. I’m not the expert when it comes to horror. I have a few dozen I really love, but at the top of that list is Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining. In 1980, just the trailer for Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining scared…
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One Battle After Another: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
The Good Warner Bros. has almost single-handedly rescued the movie business this year by making original films that people turned out to see, and they made money. F1, Sinners, and Weapons are all in the top 20 highest-grossing films of the year. Now, Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After…
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Hollywood Needs a DOGE
This is another terrible weekend for Hollywood at the box office. They have shrunk their audience dramatically. They can’t fix the problem because they can’t even name it. As I look around at the trades, I still see the same thing: On X, they think Hollywood is to blame for sending movies to...
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Travis Bickle Comes Back to Haunt Robert De Niro ... Again
[This is my first try at a video of my podcasts - let me know what you think. The text is below] What did Robert De Niro think when he heard the news that a loser on the fringe shot President Trump? Did he think, “Good. I’m glad someone finally did.” Did he pause and contemplate the near-death of…
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Hollywood is Officially Too Weird for America
I came of age in Ronald Reagan’s America. The Hays Code had loosened its grip on movies throughout the 60s and 70s. Hollywood felt threatened enough by television to give audiences what they couldn’t get anywhere else, graphic violence and explicit sex. But by the 1980s, a new Conservativism had...
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Can the Oscar Nominations Bring Viewers Back?
Tomorrow, the Oscar nominations will be announced bright and early for the 96th Academy Awards. It’s also the date of the primary in New Hampshire. It’s hard not to connect these two things. The Oscars are now fully merged with the Democratic Party as one organism. The same reason Trump is making...
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The Golden Globes Amid a Collapsing Empire
All eyes are on Barbie to save the Golden Globes tonight when their beleaguered ceremony rolls out at long last on CBS. To get there, they would have to add 200 new members who were intersectional enough to satisfy the activists who had scolded them and shamed them out of business for being...
About this show
A look at our past films to help understand how Hollywood has changed over the past 20 years to reflect social justice issues instead of telling good stories. It seems that the film industry has abandoned the majority and that's a problem for them. Hollywoodwoketopia.com is run by Sasha Stone who also runs Awardsdaily.com, a site dedicated to the Oscar race, and sashastone.substack.com, which covers politics.
www.hollywoodwoketopia.com
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