Ma is neither great nor terrible, though its quality would certainly lean more towards the latter if not for the casting of and rewriting for Octavia Spencer, whose portrayal of a character not written to be African-American lends a subtext of tokenism and how victimization perpetuates victimization.
After a discussion of the film, some news on the direction of the podcast for the remainder of the year (SPOILERS: it's horror).
IDMB Episode 124 - Chimes at Midnight
IDMB Episode 123 - The Stranger
IDMB Episode 122 - Intro to Orson Welles (featuring Tyler Smith of Battleship Pretension)
IDMB Episode 121 - Starship Troopers
IDMB Episode 120 - Basic Instinct
IDMB Episode 119 - Katie Tippel
IDMB Episode 118 - Introduction to Paul Verhoeven (featuring Mat Bradley-Tschirgi of Sequelcast 2)
IDMB Episode 117 - Pieta
IDMB Episode 116 - Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter...And Spring
IDMB Episode 115 - The Isle
IDMB Episode 114 - Introduction to Kim Ki-duk (featuring David Bax of Battleship Pretension)
IDMB Episode 113 - Day for Night
IDMB Episode 112 - Shoot the Piano Player
IDMB Episode 111 - The 400 Blows
IDMB Episode 110 - Introduction to Francois Truffaut (featuring Robert Hornak of More Than One Lesson)
IDMB Episode 109 - The Mirror
IDMB Episode 108 - Solaris
IDMB Episode 107 - Ivan's Childhood
IDMB Episode 106 - Introduction to Andrei Tarkovsky (featuring Doug McCambridge of Good Times, Great Movies)
IDMB Episode 105 - Ace in the Hole
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