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Founder & EIC, Mediaversity Reviews | TV & films graded on diversity | 🍅 critic | Sr. Director, Content at Common Sense Media (views her own) | 📍Seattle, WA

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Li Lai • Mediaversity Reviews @mediaversityreviews.com · Nov 12

Reintroducing myself and Mediaversity. Supporting emerging TV/film critics from underrepresented backgrounds since 2016, we grade TV and movies on inclusiveness. We're in this marathon for the long haul. Completely independent, consider donating ✌🏻 Either monthly: www.patreon.com/mediaversity...

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 23h

I really hope the AI bubble bursts soon. So sick and tired of them shoving it into everything whether it makes sense or not.

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Li Lai • Mediaversity Reviews @mediaversityreviews.com · 1d

This looks so funny 🤌🏻

Luke Burns @lukevburns.bsky.social · 1d

If you're in New York, you've got two chances to see the movie my wife co-wrote and co-directed, "This Will Never Work"

SoHo International Film Festival on October 12th (this Sunday!), and Dumbo Film Festival on November 21st.

Links for tix in the thread below ⬇️

This Will Never Work trailer

THIS WILL NEVER WORK is feature length comedy about a Black family coming together to have an intervention for Amanda's drinking problem. They've hired…

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Li Lai • Mediaversity Reviews @mediaversityreviews.com · 6d

In Taiwan on family vacation and crying that I a) don't have time ob) can't understand Chinese (lol), otherwise I'd love to catch this theatrical screening of Yi Yi 😭

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RMJ @rmccarthyjames.bsky.social · 7d

Buffy the Vampire Slayer is so beautifully dated, but the season one episode about Willow getting a AI boyfriend feels very relevant

Willow saying, and he’s romantic and we agree about everything

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Li Lai • Mediaversity Reviews @mediaversityreviews.com · 17d

NEW REVIEW — #GabbysDollhouse proves that a movie can be pink, purple, and glittery ✨ while still showing that a girl's value comes from more than just her looks. More on the film's diversity: www.mediaversityreviews.com/film-reviews...

Gabby's Dollhouse: The Movie — Mediaversity Reviews

“While the visuals lean heavily into traditional gender coding, Gabby’s Dollhouse: The Movie avoids toxic messages.”

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Li Lai • Mediaversity Reviews @mediaversityreviews.com · 21d

NEW REVIEW — Another weekend, another crop of new movies in theaters! We caught #Adulthood, but if you're looking for a solidly inclusive movie, this isn't the one www.mediaversityreviews.com/film-reviews...

Adulthood — Mediaversity Reviews

“To its credit, Adulthood does weave in disability storylines without sensationalizing them.”

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Li Lai • Mediaversity Reviews @mediaversityreviews.com · 23d

NEW REVIEW — Lilly Singh's #DoinIt isn't exactly up for an Oscar, but the goofy sex comedy from #SXSW opens in theaters this weekend and could be exactly what you're in the mood for. www.mediaversityreviews.com/film-reviews...

Doin' It — Mediaversity Reviews

“The cultural references in Doin’ It suffer from oversimplification.”

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Frank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social · 25d

One of these rich dudes invested in a food company with all proceeds going to kids in need. The other started Sundance Institute, boosting the lives of countless artists. Hey modern rich dudes, don't be a typical greedy AI crypto-prick, be like these two.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 25d

live your life so that when you die everyone talks about how hot you were and not how you were a hateful bigot

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Justin LaLiberty @jlalibs.com · Sep 5

Don’t normalize this shit. It’s an affront. The last thing we want is for something like this to be financially successful or make waves in any way. If the “test case” benefits those bankrolling it, where does this stop? Do we get a fake “original” cut of GREED next?

Orson Welles’ Lost Movie Will Use AI to Reconstruct Missing 43 Minutes

Amazon-backed firm Showrunner, led by Edward Saatchi, is using the film as a test case for how Hollywood can overhaul production. The results won't be commercialized — the tech giant hasn't obtained r...

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🧛🏻‍♀️Let_The_Right_Hanh_In @hanhonymous.bsky.social · 24d

🙁 Jerry is leaving #BenAndJerrys (via @yobencohen.bsky.social)

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Li Lai • Mediaversity Reviews @mediaversityreviews.com · 24d

NEW REVIEW — Although #TheLastOfUs got shut out of its three #Emmy nominations this past weekend, the inclusive HBO series still has a place in our hearts 🌈❤️ Our latest deep dive: www.mediaversityreviews.com/tv-reviews/2...

The Last of Us - Seasons 1-2 — Mediaversity Reviews

“ The Last of Us constantly shows love—including queer love—persisting in the face of destruction.”

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Jill Weinberger @jillybobww.bsky.social · Jul 31

Things are pretty bad right now and we need to take joy wherever we can, so here is a picture of Jack McBrayer and Alexander Skarsgard holding hands and being best friends.

Jack McBrayer and Alexander Skarsgard holding hands while standing on the field in a stadium. McBrayer is smiling or in the middle of laughing while Skarsgard is looking at the camera. They are adorable.

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hellresidentNY 🖤 @hellresidentny.blacksky.app · 28d

@angryblacklady.bsky.social also mentioned BETTER OFF TED as her answer to that question.

Which is why I'm watching BETTER OFF TED right now, and being reminded of how clever and hilarious it is, how Portia de Rossi as Veronica is the absolute best, and that this show deserved five more seasons.

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Li Lai • Mediaversity Reviews @mediaversityreviews.com · 28d

Quote post with your weekend plans:

Li Lai • Mediaversity Reviews @mediaversityreviews.com · 29d

NEW REVIEW — My third #TIFF50 coverage dives into film #TheSunRisesOnUsAll, an incredible visual story that immerses you into the urban rhythms and indifferences of Guangzhou, China www.mediaversityreviews.com/film-reviews...

The Sun Rises On Us All — Mediaversity Reviews

“ The Sun Rises On Us All demonstrates an intimacy with women’s experiences around healthcare and fertility, with certain moments feeling plucked from my own life.”

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Li Lai • Mediaversity Reviews @mediaversityreviews.com · Sep 11

NEW REVIEW — Indigenous narrative story about the Sixties Scoop, #Meadowlarks, wound up being one of my favorite films of #TIFF50. Bring handkerchiefs! 🤧 www.mediaversityreviews.com/film-reviews...

Meadowlarks — Mediaversity Reviews

“The women of Meadowlarks are recognizable in so many ways.”

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Li Lai • Mediaversity Reviews @mediaversityreviews.com · Sep 8

Final #TIFF50 rundown: 26 films, most of them good or very good. #Hamnet tops the list ❤️ A great year, excited to see more like #LeftHandedGirl #RentalFamily when they come out soon!

Letterboxd thumbnails of Hamnet (5 stars), Tuner (4.5 stars), Meadowlarks, Roofman (4 stars), Hedda, A Private Life, A Pale View of Hills, Lucky Lu, Girl, The Son and the Sea, The Lost Bus (3.5 stars), The Man in the Basement

The Sun Rises on us All (3.5 stars), California Schemin', Modern Whore, Whistle, The Choral (3 stars), Little Lorraine, Retreat, Ghost School

Nomad Shadow (3 stars), Sacrifice (2.5 stars), Renoir, Homebound, Laundry (2 stars), Glenrothan (1.5 stars)

Li Lai • Mediaversity Reviews @mediaversityreviews.com · Sep 8

Oh wow #Hamnet #TIFF50 fucked me up. So many sniffles in the packed theater. Chloé Zhao, man 🤧 That concludes my festival this year! 25 movies later, this is my runaway favorite. Getting on a plane in a couple of hours back to Seattle—last stop, ramen 🍜

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Li Lai • Mediaversity Reviews @mediaversityreviews.com · Sep 8

What a story!

Li Lai • Mediaversity Reviews @mediaversityreviews.com · Sep 6

#CaliforniaSchemin dir. by James McAvoy (onstage, along with main actors) was so much fun—a total crowd pleaser, and we can always use more Scottish movies!!

California Schemin' Q&A with actors, director, and moderator on stage.

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Li Lai • Mediaversity Reviews @mediaversityreviews.com · Sep 6

NEW REVIEW — My first review from #TIFF50 is on the documentary #ModernWhore: Bawdy, campy, and important, if narrow in scope. www.mediaversityreviews.com/film-reviews...

Modern Whore — Mediaversity Reviews

“ Modern Whore challenges the desexualization of disabled people in mainstream narratives.”

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Li Lai • Mediaversity Reviews @mediaversityreviews.com · Sep 6

Jealous 😭 that was my #1 want to watch movie at TIFF this year but couldn't get a ticket (or any other same-day ticket for Rental Family, Good Fortune, or Sacrifice around the same time frame). Oh well, enjoy it!!

Li Lai • Mediaversity Reviews @mediaversityreviews.com · Sep 6

Yeah! Started off with STEVE, which I really liked, then tried to do Bad Apple but it was full so I opted for RETREAT instead. In line now for California Schemin'. You?

Li Lai • Mediaversity Reviews @mediaversityreviews.com · Sep 6

Yikes! It's so frustrating, I just don't understand people who think movie theaters are their living rooms. If you want to dual screen with a movie on in the background, do it at home 🤷🏻‍♀️

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