Editor’s Note first: now that we know what’s what, my feelings are the Oscar nominated films I haven’t touched yet will start up again Sunday night. My reaction looking over the nominations this morning: there are some definite frontrunners (mostly in the acting categories), but I really don’t know who’s winning Best Picture. More […]
On the weekend of the 2nd Women’s March, I thought I’d start this week by publicly acknowledging something I ‘borrowed’ from a woman… Somewhere down the line, I heard Kerry Washington uses this technique called ‘Who Am I?’ As you’ll see below, it’s a mini cheat sheet that, for actors at least, can quickly […]
The weekend! I didn’t realize til this morning the Oscars nominations come out Tuesday, so we’ll take a few days off from the movie reviews and see how that falls. In the meantime, something upbeat to start the weekend. And I miss Heavy D. Have a good one gang!
Happy MLK weekend everyone! Some of the Black Panther conversations I’ve had this week turned into ‘What other pop culture things felt like everyone had to see it right away (before we had social media)?’ Michael Jackson video premieres definitely were on the list, thus today’s choice (particularly with the cast, setting and director […]
If you’ve lived in LA for any period of time, you’ve seen the billboard. You may have even gone to one of the midnight screenings of ‘the Room’ (I admit at this point I still haven’t seen it, but I’m familiar with the ‘making of’ story, as most film geeks are. As now Golden […]
A solemn day for my tribe today. Marek Jacobs, one of the young brothers who brought me into Alpha at the University of Kansas, passed away after a fight with stomach cancer. I can’t tell you the specific first time I met Brother Jacobs, but I imagine it was something along the lines of […]
When you have the catalog of Denzel, they won’t all be Hall of Famers. That’s my takeaway from ‘Roman J. Israel, Esq.’ Denzel follows up ‘Fences’ (and the Oscar loss to Casey Affleck) with this character study about an attorney who’s out of step with his times. Throwing out his cool trademarks (and removing […]
I asked my family what they wanted for the holidays and the answer across the board was ‘My Time (and Attention).’ What perfect symbolism. Hope for the best, prepare for the worst. Who can really say if we’ve seen the worst yet? But, when they literally came for the Muslims, I was ready. All […]
A lot of thoughts about the past 12 months (I know that’s a huge understatement). We’ll get to that next week. We know what this weekend is. That review is coming Sunday night. This scene from ‘Rebels’ speaks to me alot personally and is a nice animated version of how I feel (and also […]
Jedi talk and year end reflections will be coming REAL quick, so before we don’t have a chance to later… Happy Holidays Everyone!
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