Review: Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom was a film that I felt like I needed to see. As shocking as it is to say, I ...
Tag: racism
Features
LFF: Mangrove and Black female power
We’ve all heard and repeated the phrase, Black Lives Matter. But do we mean it? Are we willing to risk ourselves and sacrifice ...
Reviews
Review: Queen & Slim
Early on in Queen & Slim, after our inciting event of police brutality sets our titular duo on the run, a character greets ...
New trailer for Queen & Slim hits the road running
In a blisteringly-contemporary update of the outlaws-on-the-run genre, we today get our first look at Queen & Slim from director Melina Matsoukas, who ...
Reviews
Review: Peppermint
Peppermint looked so good on paper. The director of Taken returning to the revenge genre with Jennifer Garner doing her best Linda Hamilton and telling a ...
Review: LA 92
It’s been 25 years since the LA riots, and there are a number of films coming out that revisit this harrowing moment in ...
What if Lewis Tan played Danny Rand in Iron Fist instead of Finn Jones?
The first season of Iron Fist was the worst kind of disaster–a boring disaster. At least half of the season was devoted to ...
Reviews
Review: Get Out
There’s a story I heard but cannot verify about why Dave Chapelle ended The Chapelle Show when he did, with tens of millions of ...
Great Wall director speaks up about White Washing
Last week the first trailer for The Great Wall dropped, and as it was a movie about China with its lead being not Chinese ...
Trailers
Chinese Force Awakens trailer has new footage (to make up for possibly racist movie poster)
In case you haven’t realized it, STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS COMES OUT NEXT WEEK! At least in most of the world. China ...
The Cult Club: Putney Swope (1969)
New York Times film critic A.O. Scott, in one of his signature recurring gags, wrote that Mad Max: Fury Road was rated R ...
Native American actors walk off the set of Adam Sandler’s latest terrible idea
Just when I thought things couldn’t get any worse, and just when I thought Adam Sandler’s films looked a bit interesting, something like ...