Liked it. Didn’t love it til the end. In recent memory, ‘Brokeback Mountain’ is an excellent story of forbidden love; ‘Blue is the Warmest Color’ feels more three dimensional (and more explicit sexually). ‘Call Me By Your Name’ is strong for what it is; a young man discovers his sexuality and comes of age […]
My Frat ‘DJ Joe Brooks’ sent me his Valentine’s Day mix last night. It’s a nice blend of old school, blue eyed soul and reggae. Good music choice to start this week. Enjoy! https://soundcloud.com/dj-joe-brooks/v-day-mix-2018
First, Rest in Peace Reg E. Cathey. From ‘Oz’ to ‘the Wire’ to ‘House of Cards’, Cathey was a fantastic, Emmy winning character actor. More importantly, judging by the words of those who knew him and worked with him, an even better human being. He will be missed. Speaking of character actors. Lee Harvey […]
Funny, I was just watching this last week for acting purposes… But since Quincy Jones felt the need to throw the 1960s under the bus this week, let me post this… More serious people, who are more directly affected by homophobia than I, can speak to some of the uglier comments around Q’s revelations […]
One of my all time favorite Beatles covers brings us to the music section of the week. Do I like this more than the original? Not quite. Having said that, this version (for the reasons you probably suspect) speaks to my soul (no pun intended) more than the original. I half jokingly said once […]
Someone called this ‘Goodfellas for the ice skating world’. That’s actually, pretty accurate. Beyond the blond bombshell stuff, I knew Margot Robbie could actually act. So I wasn’t shocked to see how well she took to the accent and (I don’t even know if this is the best way to phrase this) ‘toned down’ […]
At least as far as the acting awards go, the frontrunner for a lot of Oscars is still ‘Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri’. Out of what I’ve seen so far, this one isn’t as showy (visually) as ‘The Shape of Water’ but I found myself more engaged story wise. The setup: when a young […]
The weekend, and a new month! The playlist gave me a couple of my favorite ‘hood’ jams: ‘I’m a Thug’, and ‘Ambitionz az a Ridah’. But, I just refuse to start Black History Month posting one of those. So we’ll start the weekend with New Edition. Enjoy gang, next Best Picture review Super Bowl […]
I know. There was a Prince song in this spot last week. But when they decide to put up a video of my single favorite Prince song ever, a song I didn’t even know he made a video for? Well, you’re going to have to suck it up if you don’t like the Purple […]
It’s exciting (and a little sad) to think of how much good territory there still is to cover in genre films, simply by seeing these stories through the eyes of different storytellers (and by extension, different protagonists.) I personally feel ‘Get Out’/horror was the best example this awards season, but ‘Lady Bird’/coming of age […]
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