One more, irresistable Neptunes beat to start your weekend. Start my vacation this weekend. I have some of my favorite scoring music set up for you next week. I’ll try to drop it on you in my free moments. In the meantime, have a good one folks!
Here are this year’s nominees for Best Picture: Call Me By Your Name Darkest Hour Dunkirk Get Out Lady Bird Phantom Thread The Post The Shape of Water Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Who I’m Cheering For: Come on… Who Should Win: Last year (I think) established unless you have ‘Titantic’, nobody really knows until the […]
Here are the nominees for Best Actress in a Leading Role: Sally Hawkins – The Shape of Water Frances McDormand – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Margot Robbie – I, Tonya Saorise Ronan – Lady Bird Meryl Streep – The Post Who I’m Cheering For: I don’t know if anyone here completely ‘doesn’t belong’ this […]
Here are the nominees for Best Actor in a Leading Role: Timothee Chalamet – Call Me By Your Name Daniel Day-Lewis – Phantom Thread Daniel Kaluuya – Get Out Gary Oldman – Darkest Hour Denzel Washington – Roman J Israel Esq. Who I’m Cheering For: Multiple names I admire on this list, but looking at […]
Here are the nominees for Best Actress in a Supporting Role: Mary J. Blige – Mudbound Allison Tanney – I, Tonya Lesley Manville – Phantom Thread Laurie Metcalf – Lady Bird Octavia Spencer – The Shape of Water Who I’m Cheering For: You know how a part of you always remembers someone from the first […]
Here are the nominees for Best Actor in a Supporting Role: Willem Dafoe – The Florida Project Woody Harrelson – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Richard Jenkins – The Shape of Water Christopher Plummer – All the Money in the World Sam Rockwell – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Who Should Win: Hmmm. I thought […]
Definitely lost in the phenomenon of ‘Black Panther’ this weekend, Chris Rock has a new stand up special on Netflix. As much as I love Chappelle, some of his silliness isn’t working the same way it did years ago. ‘Tambourine’ is interesting just to see how Rock is adapting and changing as life […]
Malcolm X, Do the Right Thing, Coming to America…Black Panther is in the pantheon of great black films, immediately. So what can I say that hasn’t been hot taked to death already? I picked a few things… Stakes – Yes, I’m going to use ‘the Dark Knight’ as one of the best examples, but it’s […]
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 […]
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 […]
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