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Apples ★★★
While some people might be craving a return to “normal life” with a potential end to the COVID-19 pandemic visible,Continue Reading
Atlantics, His House, and Migration’s Ghosts
Is there actually always a way out? Taken literally, the answer to that question is an obvious yes, for thereContinue Reading
The Innocence of Childhood & the Destruction of Gentrification in Crooklyn
Following his success with Malcolm X, Spike Lee turned the camera onto his own life with Crooklyn, a semi-autobiographical filmContinue Reading
Malcolm X’s World, and the World Around Us
“I am not a racist. I am against every form of racism and segregation, every form of discrimination. I believeContinue Reading
Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar ★★★½
Everything I learned while satisfying two years of curriculum for a cinema studies minor has now been proven to beContinue Reading
Psyche vs. Eros in Losing Ground
Losing Ground starts unremarkably enough with a scene of Sarah Rogers (Seret Scott), a college professor of philosophy, lecturing onContinue Reading
Inside Man, Heists, and the Distribution of Power
Inside Man may be Spike Lee‘s most commercial joint but it’s far from lacking in the incisive social commentary alwaysContinue Reading
Old School from a New Perspective: Devil in a Blue Dress
Director Carl Franklin’s Devil in a Blue Dress opens with a shot of a Black neighborhood in downtown Los Angeles.Continue Reading
The Long Con of Chameleon Street
The malleability of racial identity has been at the heart of many notable works of art, perhaps none more famousContinue Reading
Romance and Reggae in Lovers Rock
Steve McQueen, quite simply, is an exquisite filmmaker. As an artist, he is similar to a trained fighter with knowledgeContinue Reading
