In this episode I review the new film Get Out by Jordan Peele starring Daniel Kaluuya, Alison Williams, Bradley Whitford and Catherine Keener. I talk with my friend and fellow film critic Roxana Hadadi about Film and TV in 2016 and awards season. Finally I review the film Logan by James Mangold starring Hugh Jackman, Sir Patrick Stewart and Dafne Keen.Continue Reading …
Another year and another black led holiday film. Sometimes these are pretty decent film going affairs like This Christmas, sometimes it’s pretty terrible like Black Nativity. So where does Almost Christmas sit? It’s a future hood bootleg classic. Some of you may ask what that means, put simply it means that it’s good enough that most black folks will see this in a barbershop or from their uncle with the movies to watch on Thanksgiving day or Christmas. It’s a middle of road holiday weekend movie but maybe not one to run out to go see.Continue Reading …
So I’m sitting here wondering how do you really sit and review a stand-up comedy concert film? Like does editing and cinematography really matters here? Is that a standard to even think about? There really isn’t a plot because like come on its stand up. I think first things first Kevin Hart is right now and has been for a few years THE most visible and mass popular stand-up comedian we have. You can counter with Louis C.K., Aziz Ansari or Amy Schumer but Amy isn’t at that level yet, Aziz kind of has a certain niche in that “lovelorn let’s explore romance and ball out” lane and Louie is like the artisan of comedy. Kevin is the one that people instantly gets, can be annoying and you worry about him over saturating himself but somehow he’s just likable enough to keep his hustle going. Which brings us to his newest concert film What Now? It’s been a few years since his last one, Let Me Explain, and here his goal is to take it to another level. Like the last film he bookends his movie with fictional story on a problem on him getting to his concert.Continue Reading …