Time to talk pollution, by way of a kaiju movie! This week’s episode of 2 Black Guys Talk Godzilla discusses a unique entry in Toho’s series, 1971’s Godzilla vs. Hedorah, aka Godzilla vs. The Smog Monster (it’s official American title), from director Yoshimitsu Banno. Given the significant shift in style, the film has always been
It’s late and I am now on day 6 of my TIFF experience. No long preamble, here’s some more thoughts on films I saw: Saipan: The feel..bad? sports movie of the year? Saipan is not a bad movie at all, quite enjoyable actually. Taking us to a dramatized version of what took place when Roy
I have achieved my first five movie day at film festival in eons thanks to the Wednesday slate at TIFF. I was close to making it 6 but my body said no. If you want some spur of the moment thoughts, I document them on TikTok. Let’s dive into some more movies shall we! The
It’s day…something of the Toronto International Film Festival (I have lost count) and so fa it has been quite the journey. From epic tales of kabuki theater to movies set in the Pacific Northwest, much has unfolded at this festival. Let’s dive into a couple more movies: Kokuho: Easily the best movie I’ve seen at
The power of movies as a visual medium is the edit. Being able to harness the power of time and create juxtapositions allows filmmakers to craft enticing narratives and audiences to be directed to where they need to go in a story. However, just because the tools are at our disposal does not mean that
A couple of weeks ago I was having a discussion with my roommate about the roles Black people get to play. While he vouched for us needing more heroes, I said that we haven’t gotten to reach our full evil potential. Getting to be as messy and conniving and cruel as possible without needing a