& Categories Reviews TV April 6, 2021 “Exterminate All the Brutes” rewrites the history books Raoul Peck's latest project is a dizzying, informative, frequently overwhelming rejoinder to the history of white supremacy and imperialism.
S Categories Festivals Movies Reviews SXSW 2021 March 18, 2021 SXSW 2021 Doc Spotlight: “Spring Valley”, “When Claude Got Shot”, “Who We Are” Black issues are front and center, from reckonings with racist violence to broader discussions of the history of America's prejudice.
R Categories Features TV June 8, 2020 Reexamining the anti-racist messaging of HBO’s “Whitewash” Lambasted at the time for not being direct enough about race, HBO's animated short takes on new significance in a post-BLM America.
& Categories Filmmaker of the Month Movies April 26, 2020 “Black Panther,” M’Baku, and reclaiming the savage Ryan Coogler's superhero film not only salvages the colonialist origins of the comic's imagery, it reclaims them for a Black audience.
W Categories TV November 3, 2019 Watchmen Recap: “She Was Killed By Space Junk” An old character from the comics arrives reinvented, as we see the other half of the story thus far. Up to this point, Watchmen has..
T Categories Movies September 26, 2019 The Day Shall Come Review: Chris Morris Satire Lacks Bite Tone-deaf obviousness and blunt-force capitalist critiques plague Morris' latest, letting down its good intentions with disappointing bluntness.
S Categories Movies July 17, 2019 Sword of Trust Review: Mumblecore Meets Civil War The South rises again thanks to the effortless comic charms of Lynn Shelton and Marc Maron.
S Categories Features Movies May 4, 2019 Sixteen Candles at 35: A Bittersweet Birthday Full of racist jokes & sexual assault subplots, John Hughes' teen rom-com classic has aged like bad cheese. But is there anything worth saving about it?
F Categories Features Filmmaker of the Month Movies April 27, 2019 Five Years Later, Ava DuVernay’s “Selma” Remains a Powerful Document of the Civil Rights Movement Five years on, Ava DuVernay's gripping account of the march from Selma to Washington stresses that MLK's fight is far from over today.
T Categories Movies April 5, 2019 The Best of Enemies Review: The Real Racism Was the Friends We Made Along the Way Solid lead performances are little compensation for more feel-good "can't we all just get along?" Oscar bait.
