Published Aug 28, 2026, 2:33 PM EDT
Adam Bentz is a senior news writer at ScreenRant, where he has authored nearly 5,000 articles, including features and lists. He studied creative writing and English with a concentration in screenwriting at Southern New Hampshire University and interned as a writer/journalist for The Borgen Project, an influential organization that fights global poverty.
However, one of his proudest achievements is editing a Leonardo DiCaprio freakout compilation that has over 150K views on YouTube. Adam also fancies himself an amateur film critic on his personal website.
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Amazon's revival of a 26-year-old franchise sparks accusations of racism and campaigns calling for audiences to boycott the new project.
Sacha Baron Cohen is back with the new movie, Ali G: Who Iz I?, reviving the controversy as some activists are calling the character racist and urging theaters to boycott the film. The UK-based media-bias watchdog NewsCord has mobilized its members in support of a campaign to send 37,000 emails to cinemas worldwide, urging them not to screen the film, writing:
Jeanette Winterson asked what separates it from the Black and White Minstrels; Kazakh and Arab organisations documented the harm of the catalogue behind it. Sony Pictures UK is selling it with the line "He iz back. We ain’t liable." The screens belong to the chains, and a booking is a choice.
Afua Hirsch wrote on Substack, "Black people don’t dress like that anymore. Even white people imitating Black people don’t talk like that anymore. Sexualizing black women and casually mocking working class women is not accepted anymore. Baron Cohen’s so-called ‘humor’ is a crude compound of all these things."
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