Movie Review: Sly Lives! (aka The Burden of Black Genius)
I love Questlove’s mission. The amazing musician is also at this point a brilliant moviemaker, intent on showing us parts of music history he thinks …
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Movie Review: Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight
There’s plenty of movies about racism and racial politics. But not many of those are viewed through the lens of small children, for obvious reasons. …
Movie Review: Tornado
Tornado was clearly inevitable when your name is John Maclean. Wanting to take that die hard namesake, but clearly apply it to your triple loves …
Movie Review: I Know What You Did Last Summer (2025)
It really is a great title. Boasting the same awesome premise, I Know What You Did Last Summer hopes this new generation of ill fated …
Movie Review: Apocalypse in the Tropics
Maybe that Karl Marx had some good ideas? Religion and Politics, when mixed, prove to be a potent, but VERY dangerous partnership, causing all sorts …
Movie Review: Eddington
Sweet, scared, Ari Aster. The master filmmaker hasn’t really recovered from the 2020 Coronavirus Pandemic, and astutely realized, neither has the United States. Aster drops …
Movie Review: The Amateur
We were overdue for an update here. Alfred Hitchcock built a lot of his films around “the wrong man” country hopping spy thrillers, where our …
Movie Review: Superman (2025)
The last time a person was solely responsible for a creative vision of a big franchise, we got The Last Jedi, which has become ground …
Movie Review: Heads of State
I was bummed when this wasn’t the sequel to Chris Rock’s Head of State. I was ready to be more bummed too the more promotional …
Movie Review: 40 Acres
I walked in to 40 Acres knowing the premise was made a year ago, starring Halle Berry and Alexandre Aja. Read: I did NOT have …