Most Anticipated of March 2021
Ian Floodgate: Audiences might be easing back into cinemas, but most of the films we’re anticipating this month appear toContinue Reading
Tag: America
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 Righteous Anger of Watermelon Man
Jeff Gerber (Godfrey Cambridge) is a racist. He may cover it up in “jokes” or off-color comments that he triesContinue Reading
Freeing Up the Lane Through Love & Basketball
When did we come up with this preconceived notion that movies – all of them, every last one – haveContinue Reading
Influence & Judas and the Black Messiah
There was a brief period of time in which Judas and the Black Messiah was titled Jesus Was My Homeboy,Continue Reading
