I had some thoughts about starting this week talking about ‘This Week’s Atrocity’. But… We’re about to head into July. I think it’s time to clock the outrage, and focus on November. So let’s get into some music to start the week. Always loved the simplicity of this video. Pretty girl, Wendy(?) on guitar, […]
The official answer to it all is, ‘It is the will of Allah.’ If I go before I resurface next month, Surah 2, verse 286 should be on the front of the program: ‘Allah imposes not on any soul a duty beyond its scope.’ When my mind is quiet though, (which is often now), […]
I don’t think Justin Simien will take any offense to me saying each incarnation of ‘Dear White People’ has been an improvement on the one before it. The latest season (or volume as it were) builds on Season 1’s re-introduction of the characters and settings of Winchester University, and creatively expands on them in […]
I understand (kind of) that Netflix can’t promote the living heck out of every single project they put up. I kept hearing about ‘On My Block’ by word of mouth, and I was only two episodes in before I started telling people around me, ‘You need to get involved with this,’ and now that […]
Do not let it be said we’re anywhere close to running out of fresh angles for genre stories… At its core, ‘First Match’ is a coming of age story. But here are just a few of the ‘not worn out’ touches… a) the protagonist is a young black girl b) she tries to bond […]
Even for someone like me who’s more or less the same age as hip hop, it’s hard now to imagine the early days, when even people who saw money couldn’t imagine millions of dollars. When it was a neighborhood thing and not a worldwide culture. ‘Roxanne Roxanne’ does an excellent job of reminding you […]
The writing was on the wall about a month ago… The car breaking down every three months? That stopped happening. The hopping around from job to job which is somewhat expected in a town like Los Angeles, but I always seemed to be on the extreme end of it? That stopped happening. I’d found […]
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 […]
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 […]
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