‘Homecoming’

I mean… This woman is my generation’s Michael. There’s no more debate. I’m old, that might not have been up for debate for a while. But this concert film closed the book on that. Michael, mixed with Tina Turner. I’m also the product of HBCU grads, my childhood had the Homecomings and the Bayou Classic […]

‘Lemonade’

Wow.  Everyone is going to come at this from different angles.  I’ll touch on what struck the biggest chords with me. Most artists (yours truly included) like to dance that line between what you definitely know about them, and what you think you know, but really can’t prove.  So when the short started, and a […]

Song of the Day – ‘7/11’

Look… As individual as I am, I completely get we’re all attracted to different types.  Our cultures, our backgrounds, personal experience.  And you know, there’s a lot of thangs you can say ‘I’d never date that’ but the rhetorical ‘freebie/safe list’ or whatever the young people are calling it these days?  Yeah, you can say […]

Hooray for Hollywood!

  And so this week is the first but not definitely not the last week that will be full of movie reviews in this space. Interesting part of being around as long as I’ve been around: I’m a proud voting member of the guild I belong to, then I have friends who have projects out […]

Quick Shots

A lot of movie talk among friends this week – I thought I’d post my thoughts on three different castings… Willow Smith in a remake of Annie – I mean, did this even have to get ‘sold’?  Little Jada has a hit song under her belt, her brother had a nice hit (and respectable remake) […]

My Thoughts on the Oscars

  Hey, did, did someone correctly predict four out of five in the major categories?  (And I said I could see Penelope winning, scroll down.)  Maybe I should think about a career in the movie industry?  No, this year was fairly predictable if you’ve been following awards season.  Anyway, quick thoughts on the show in […]