Category Archives: Film
Will Smith’s Next Steps
It was perhaps inevitable that in promoting his new film, Focus, that Will Smith would have to address the relative failure of his last film, After Earth. I don’t think anyone who has followed Will Smith’s career or grew up … Continue reading
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My 13 Favorite Pop Culture Moments of 2013
I don’t have a long preamble for this. This list is just my way of trying to pull together a lot of disparate pop culture moments that struck me in some profound way during the year. I think the more … Continue reading
Posted in Best of 2013, Culture, Film, Music, Television
Tagged 12 Years A Slave, Arrow, Baggage Claim, Beyonce, Breeze, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Doris, Earl Sweatshirt, Fruitvale Station, Funkmaster Flex, GQ, Hot 97, Huck, Jenifer Lewis, Kickstarter, Lost Girl, Lupita Nyong'o, Man of Steel, Mister Cee, Oscar Grant, Ryan Coogler, Scandal, Spike Lee, The Best Man Holiday, The Originals, The Vampire Diaries, Veronica Mars
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Portrait of a Black Man: Reviewing ‘Fruitvale Station’
“Seen as animals, brutes, natural born rapists, and murderers, Black men have had no real dramatic say when it comes to the way they are represented. They have made few interventions on the stereotype…Black males who refuse categorization are rare, … Continue reading
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Tagged black film, criminal justice, Fruitvale Station, Michael B. Jordan, Oscar Grant, race, Ryan Coogler
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On J. August Richards’ Webseries, ‘The Hypnotist’: Black People and Science Fiction
I’m struck by the fact that the great J. August Richards is developing a sci-fi webseries, The Hypnotist, featuring black people that seems to center blackness. “…African hypnosis. It was essentially lost during the slave trade, but goes back thousands … Continue reading
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Tagged black film, J. August Richards, sci fi, science fiction, The Hypnotist, webseries
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What Exactly Is ‘The Best Man’ Sequel Trailer Saying?
In a piece I wrote two years ago for the homie Alyssa at ThinkProgress in which I discuss what I think The Best Man sequel, The Best Man Holiday, should address, I said that Malcolm Lee should center the film … Continue reading