QUEEN & SLIM REVIEW: An uncomfortable look at racial tensions, police shootings
Opening on November 27, 2019, Queen and Slim should definitely provoke interesting conversations over the Thanksgiving holiday. The film tells the story of an Afro-American couple on their first date who are pulled More...
‘Queen & Slim’ Movie Trailer sets up Lena Waithe’s ‘black Bonnie and Clyde’
From two-time Grammy award winning director Melina Matsoukas, the visionary filmmaker behind this generation’s most powerful pop-culture experiences, including HBO’s Insecure, the Emmy award-winning “Thanksgiving” More...
FIRST TRAILER: Melina Matsoukas’ ‘Queen & Slim’ set for Thanksgiving
From trailblazing, Emmy-winning writer Lena Waithe (Netflix’s Master of None) and Melina Matsoukas, the visionary director of some of this generation’s most powerful pop-culture experiences, including Beyonce’s More...
Jordan Peele offers racist confession: no interest in ‘casting a white dude as the lead in my movie’
After big box office and critical successes with Get Out and Us, creator Jordan Peele offered up a bizarre confession, pleasing the intersectional leftists by confessing he’s not interested in a “white” More...
Jordan Peele’s ‘Us’ unapologetically distresses audiences while breaking the horror genre tropes
Jordan Peele’s Get Out was such a massive success that no one expected Peele’s follow-up to measure up, but Us is a truly great film and an entertaining addition to the horror genre. Us begins a mysterious More...
‘Ma’ trailer teases new Blumhouse project with Octavia Spencer
Everybody’s welcome at Ma’s. But good luck getting home safe. Oscar® winner Octavia Spencer stars as Sue Ann, a loner who keeps to herself in her quiet Ohio town. One day, she is asked by Maggie, a new teenager More...
‘Truth or Dare’ fails at every scream
Truth or Dare tells the story of a typical group of college students sharing their last Spring Break together in Mexico. Everyone’s having a good time until they meet a young man who takes them to an abandoned More...
‘The First Purge’ poster gets more political with President Trump theme
The first poster for The First Purge, the fourth film in the series and a prequel set years before the events of part one, has arrived with a glaring political message. Previous film, The Purge: Election Year, the More...
2018 Oscar nominations: Mike Smith discusses the surprises, the James Franco snub, Logan and his predictions
Nominations for the 90th Academy Awards were announced Tuesday. Below is our analysis with Media Mikes’ Mike Smith and Brandon Jones. BEST PICTURE “Call Me by Your Name” “Darkest Hour” “Dunkirk” “Get More...
California student Samantha Diaz equates milk to racism ‘we are all in part responsible’
In an article for California State University-Long Beach’s student newspaper The Daily 49er, Samantha Diaz, a staff writer, claims that white supremacists and neo-Nazis are appropriating milk as a symbol More...
