Soon enough, Reed's doing undercover work as a kindergarten teacher at a ritzy private school, hoping to find a missing USB drive and smoke out a major drug dealer. His pal Agent Sanders (Bellamy) tries keeping him on the straight-and-narrow, but Reed's having none of that. When he's not washing his clothes in an old oil barrel or something he's falling in love with his female marks, one by one. ) who lives an iconic loner's life in an airstream trailer by a beautiful lake. A sequel in name only, KC2 features Lundgren as Agent Reed, a tough-as-nails, loose cannon type of FBI Agent (no clichés here. It's ubiquity in streaming circles means you'll either need to make the conscious choice to watch it, or it'll just happen on its own, eventually. On your way there (to hell) you might find Kindergarten Cop 2 playing in the background, and you'll realize hell might not be all that bad after all.Īt least that's what we say about Kindergarten Cop 2, starring the stoic Swede Dolph Lundgren, and the criminally underused Bill Bellamy it's not all that bad. What's a 'rental' you ask? What's a counter? Oh man, the Internet has sent to world to hell in a hand basket. I'm a tenured professor at NYU.Netflix has kind of taken the fun out of reviewing DVDs, what with stuff like Kindergarten Cop 2 streaming seemingly well before you can even drop your bucks on the rental counter for a peek.
Griffith's Birth of a Nation, should be seen. "I think that one of the most racist films ever, D.W. "I think that that should be seen," he explained during an appearance on The View in June. He noted that he shows it to his film students at NYU. Academy Award-winning filmmaker Spike Lee spoke out in favor of the 1915 movie. Jacqueline Stewart, University of Chicago professor in the department of Cinema and Media Studies and Turner Classic Movies host, said that it is an "opportunity to think about what classic films can teach us."īirth of a Nation has also been criticized for its depiction of African Americans. HBO Max previously removed Gone With The Wind from its streaming platform, and reinstated it with an introduction that provided historical context. The call to ban Kindergarten Cop is the latest in folks demanding a change to controversial films. Despite the heartfelt, full-circle ending of the crime comedy, Leveen still called for banning the film from the drive-in festival. At the end of the comedy, Kimble quits the police force and becomes a teacher. Kindergarten Cop follows Kimble (Schwarzenegger), an undercover cop posing as a teacher assigned to take down a drug kingpin. "They are relics of how pop culture feeds racist assumptions."Ī spokesperson for the Northwest Film Center said that they considered not only Leveen's comments in their decision, but "a dozen others, including Black community members who asked us to consider opening the Drive-In with a different movie," Williamette Week reported on August 3.
So are BIRTH OF A NATION and GONE WITH THE WIND, but we recognize films like those are not 'good family fun,'" Leveen concluded her Twitter thread. And this criminalizing of children increases dramatically when cops are assigned to work in schools." "5- and 6-year-olds are handcuffed and hauled off to jail routinely in this country. "There's nothing entertaining about the presence of police in schools, which feeds the 'school-to-prison' pipeline in which African American, Latinx, and other kids of color are criminalized rather than educated," she added. Read more Why Are People So Mad About 'Mulan' Coming to Disney+ Early?
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