For this Black History Month, allow me to entice you away from repeated marathons of Roots, Queenie, and Get Out into the lurid world of blaxploitation. Growing up in a very pro-black household...
Flip or Flop: Nashville premiered on HGTV on January 18. I would know, I was there. Rather, I was invited to a swanky premier party for it. In a Mercedes-Benz parking lot. The appetizers included hot...
You know who needs black superheroes? Black people. I know, it's terribly obvious. People of color are the ones that need positive representation of us the most. That should be obvious but there is...
I was excited about Netflix’s Grace and Frankie from the moment I heard about it in late 2014. If you haven’t watched the show, it is a dramedy featuring Martin Sheen and Sam Waterston...
So, Westerns are seen as rather cheesy these days, right? Just something your dad made you watch on sick days or Saturday afternoon on local cable? Well, as it turns out we may have all been sleeping...
I have been a Guillermo del Toro fan for a long time. Not only are his movies intelligent and fantastic, but I feel like as a director he really gets me, me personally as an individual. Guillermo Del...
In November, we celebrated Godzilla's 63rd birthday. The big guy with atomic breath is still going strong with his recent series reboots in Japan and in the United States. Doesn’t look a day over...
When it comes to social issues filmmaking, are there any advantages to being an “outsider” to the community one is documenting? I recently put that question to a diverse group of award-winning...
Welcome to Noir-vember, a month long celebration of shady heroes, cunning femme fatales, ineffective police, and suspense! Whether film noir should be considered its own genre or a specific set of...
Before Star Trek: Discovery premiered, Michelle Yeoh’s accent received some attention. Soon after the release of a trailer, people started talking about the fact that Yeoh, a Chinese-Malaysian...
