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Zootopia and Crossroads: The Most Woke Movies of 2016 and 2002?

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Photo: Emmanuel Hapsis, Disney and MTV Films

This week, it's all about an animated animal allegory for race relations, Britney Spears' feminist film and money money money.

This week, we talk about how Zootopia is surprisingly the most woke movie of the year:

http://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2016/03/14/469914141/in-tackling-bias-in-policing-zootopia-veers-into-the-uncanny-valley

We talk about what everyone shies away from talking about: money!

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We discover how feminist the production behind Britney Spears' Crossroads was:

https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/shonda-rhimes-on-the-making-of-crossroads-britney-spears

Extra credit homework: Read my live blog of the clunker masterpiece:

And we cap things off with not one, but two pop diva throwbacks:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEauWw9ZGrA

Until next week!

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