“With a Movie This Good, Spending ‘One Night in Miami’ Simply Isn’t Enough”

Better get on this now so you don’t have to play catch-up when “Two Nights in Miami” comes out. Continue reading →

“‘Clemency’ Examines the Toll State-Sanctioned Murder Takes on Both Sides of the Bars”

Abolish the death penalty. Continue reading →

Review: Hidden Figures, 2016, dir. Theodore Melfi

Let me tell you: Based on the poster, I honestly expected to hate Hidden Figures with a passion. I expected it to be sappy feel-good bullshit; I expected it to do its history a series of disservices; I expected it to waste its talented leading actresses. But it doesn’t! At all! The film works! I don’t … Continue reading →

“What Underground Boldly Says About the Consequences of Individual Flight”

If you aren’t watching WGN America’s excellent new show, Underground, I suggest that you remedy that by, uh, watching WGN America’s excellent new show, Underground. This applies even if you are sick to death of slave narratives or if you just don’t have the stomach for another 12 Years a Slave. Underground is kind of like that Steve McQueen … Continue reading →