Movie Review: Sing Sing
The Shawshank Redemption. The minute that 1994 masterpiece went on TNT, it became the gold standard that we would compare to all other prison movies. …
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Movie Review: Drive-Away Dolls
Drive-Away Dolls is a movie of almosts. The movie was almost titled Drive-Away Dykes, which, the powers that be determined to be too cancellable to …
Movie Review: The Color Purple
It was time. Not that I didn’t enjoy Steven Spielberg’s take on Alice Walker’s celebrated novel. But with the success of the musical version of …
Movie Review: Rustin
When Barack Obama would list his favorite movies every year, I knew he had at least decent taste. That taste has proven even better than …
Movie Review: Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken
This piece was written during the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Without the labor of the writers and actors currently on strike, the movie being …
Movie Review: Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
It was time to start over. Well, in the era of IP, sorta start over. For Transformers, like professional sports, that means 2 things. Fire …
Movie Review: Candyman (2021)
2021 was a big transition year for horror franchises. The Conjuring‘s came to an end. Netflix’s Fear Street created an exciting brand new one. But …
Movie Review: Zola
The history of America is filled with great stories. Paul Revere’s midnight ride. The tales of Huckleberry Finn. The gunfight at the OK Corral. The …
Movie Review: Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Now THIS is a worthy Oscar movie, Netflix! I get that you sorta hid Hillbilly Elegy, that’s a swing and a miss. Hey it happens. …
Movie Review: If Beale Street Could Talk
Sometimes directors adapting specific writers make so much sense you wish they’d team up more. Michael Lewis’s The Big Short could only have been properly …