“Films by Women: Five Movies to Watch from May (2020)”

We got some fluff, we got some horror, we got some screwball comedy, we got some psychosexual drama…we really got it all! Continue reading →

“‘‘The High Note’: Dakota Johnson & Tracee Ellis Ross Have Chemistry, But White Faces Intrude On Black Spaces”

“But she’s got high notes, she’s got high notes / She’s got high apple pie, in the sky notes.” Continue reading →

Review: Fist Fight, 2017, dir. Richie Keen

Cool thing you might not know about me: The more I criticize a movie whose central premise I am clearly in favor of, the more I liked the movie. The criticism just means that the movie let me down and didn’t wind up being the movie I wanted it to be. Case in point, Fist Fight, … Continue reading →

Review: Straight Outta Compton, 2015, dir. F. Gary Gray

“If there’s one question worth asking after the credits roll on F. Gary Gray’s Straight Outta Compton, it’s “Why didn’t he make a series instead of a film?” Next year, Martin Scorsese and Mick Jagger will roll out Vinyl, a ten-episode series on HBO that focuses on the developing aural confluence of hip hop, disco … Continue reading →