Boycotts

In August this year, a week after the release of Laal Singh Chaddha, Bollywood’s adaptation of Forrest Gump, a Twitter account with about 280,000 followers, tweeted: ​​“#Urduwood is trending. Thanks to all who have accepted this term to accurately define the anti-national, anti-Hindu paedophile cabal that takes your money to destroy you.” The tweet received more than 1,700 retweets and about 5,800 likes.For those not familiar with the term “Urduwood”, it is a pejorative popular among far-right social media and…

via Warner Bros. Plenty of movies spark backlash and fierce criticism, but a tear-jerking romantic drama that captured the hearts and minds of audiences around the world on its way to becoming a smash hit success story that hauled in $208 million at the box office on a $20 million budget doesn’t sound like one of them. And yet, the opposition to 2016’s Me Before You was fierce. Emilia Clarke stars as Lou, who takes a job as caregiver for Sam Claflin’s Will, a wealthy banker who was left tetraplegic in the…

Image: HBO Max One of Marvel’s most prolific comic writers, Dan Slott, has taken to Twitter to announce his boycott of HBO Max after another string of cancelations from the streaming service. In the latest round of HBO Max’s bizarre, cost-cutting decisions, the service has had its upcoming Matt Reeves produced Batman: Caped Crusader animated series face the chopping block, as well as a combination of Looney Tunes adaptations. What exactly is leading to these decisions is hard to pin down, with the live-action…

Image via Marvel Studios She-Hulk: Attorney at Law managed to muster criticism and outrage before its first episode had even been released, and now episode one is up, and the boycotters are out in force. Because those always work. In what could go down into the annals of internet history for the most unhinged and bizarre rant over something inconsequential, a Facebook page dedicated to advocating awareness for domestic violence against men has posted a lengthy text wall blaming “feminism” in She-Hulk for their…