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In 2020, 12 Years A Slave Director Steve McQueen created a sweepingly cinematic anthology miniseries for the BBC called Small Axe about the lives...
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In 2020, 12 Years A Slave Director Steve McQueen created a sweepingly cinematic anthology miniseries for the BBC called Small Axe about the lives...
I had never seen this one before, so I had NO idea that this is where the phrase “ice ice baby” came from. Vanilla...
Alice Walker’s book The Color Purple has become an important part of American literary culture. Its impact at the time of its release was...
Killers of the Flower Moon is flabby, unfocused, and at times, scattershot. It’s also a masterpiece. Master filmmaker Martin Scorsese develops and embellishes themes...
John Ridley has a career that most writers rightfully envy. He’s a storyteller, and unlike many other writers, works regularly across various mediums. As...
In most horror films, it can feel like people of color are shoehorned in as a throwaway death or comic relief. In The Blackening,...
I’ve read a number of dismissive posts in regard to YOU PEOPLE, the latest, and typically fatuous, version of GUESS WHO’S COMING TO DINNER,...
The original Alien (1979) is a brilliant film. It broke nearly every traditional science fiction and horror movie convention. It had ground-breaking practical SFX,...
Written by John Ridley Art by Giuseppe Camuncoli, Andrea Cucchi Colors by Jose Villarrubia Published by DC Comics The Other History of the...
John Legend produced documentary A Crime on the Bayou is a frustrating, soulful, hopeful telling of the events that led to the landmark Supreme...
Written by Lavaille Lavette Contributions by Common, Gabrielle Union, Dwyane Wade, Sean Combs, Ciara, Kimora Lee Simmons, Venus Williams Published by Rizzoli In...
Written by David F. Walker Art by Marcus Kwame Anderson Published by Ten Speed Press The Black Panther Party: A Graphic Novel History...
Magic, with spells and totems. A quest, with secret tunnels and death traps. Phantasmagoria, viscera, blood and spit. Sex, death, murder. Legacy, birthright and...
It feels like we’re standing at the gates of hell. This week has been, namely, a lot. A lot of grief, mourning, anger, dismay,...
Welcome, fine folks, to the debut episode of You Already Know, and boy did these guys waste no time getting to the sh*ts! Major...
I’m gonna go out on a limb here and say this 44th season of Saturday Night Live hasn’t been all that good. Daring talk,...
Ah, Halloween season. The grand time when, as my friend and burlesque performer Lillian Bustle says, you can let out your inner stripper. And,...
BlacKkKlansman¸ Spike Lee’s winner of the top prize at Cannes this year, is one of those films that gnaws at you weeks after you’ve...
What do you say about Sorry To Bother You? Y’know, besides how it’s very weird, an art film of high color and texture, a...
For nine years, the creative duo of Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal have worked to bring their feature film Blindspotting to theaters. The lifetime...
Produced by Keith Calder, Jess Calder, Rafael Casal, Daveed Diggs Written by Rafael Casal, Daveed Diggs Directed by Carlos López Estrada Starring Daveed Diggs,...
Produced by Nina Yang Bongiovi, Kelly Williams, Jonathan Duffy, Charles D. King, George Rush, Forest Whitaker Written and Directed by Boots Riley Starring Lakeith...
Produced by Dyana Winkler, Tina Brown Written by Dyana Winkler Directed by Dyana Winkler, Tina Brown Featuring Phelicia Wright, Reggie Brown, Buddy Love ...
Hail, hail: black nerd icon Janelle Monáe’s new album of sound and vision, Dirty Computer, is out. It’s dope, and different. It’s the freest...