We Are Lady Parts: Rock and Allah
A story with a point of view that you haven’t heard before is one thing, but when it’s expressed with so much confidence, that...
Scarlett and Black
When Scarlett Johansson’s Natasha Romanoff died in Avengers: Endgame — uh, spoiler alert — I thought, “She can’t be dead, because there’s going to be...
12 Mighty Orphans
In Twelve Mighty Orphans, author Jim Dent writes of football coach Harvey “Rusty” Russell arriving at the Fort Worth Masonic Home for Orphans in...
Summer Movie Preview
Call them tentpoles, popcorn movies, mainstream entertainment, or whatever: Most of those films had their theatrical releases delayed 14 months ago, if they weren’t...
Oscar’s Hidden Gold
Just before everything went to hell, we had the last Oscars, that feel-good win for Parasite, and me writing this piece while we were wearing...
Godzilla vs. Kong: Monster Smackdown
I have to say, this current series of Hollywood movies about Godzilla feels like the wrong kind of throwback. Taken as a whole, ...
Best Documentaries of 2020
Generally, this feature runs well before the Oscar nominations are announced, but not this year, as the news was revealed this past Monday. Thus,...
The Top 10 (The Sequel)
Back in December 2019, I practically threw out my shoulder patting myself on the back for a Top 10 list that was half movies directed...
Lupin: Thief Robs Thief
Want to know why George Floyd’s murder last summer at the hands of cops caused protests all over the world? It’s because police brutality...
Bridgerton: Love & Friendship
In a recent movie review, I mused that ancient British baronial estates are not known to be welcoming to Black people. One of the...
