Shadowhunters: Your New TV Obsession

There comes a moment with every show that you watch where you reach that moment of decision: will you give up or continue? Many times this decision is made with the idea of hate watching or your completist mentality in mind. However, sometimes a show is so enjoyable, the above questions never enter your mind,

Le Noir Auteur Reads #5

Here’s the 5th edition of Le Noir Auteur Reads and the 2nd one this year! So far, I’m doing pretty good on my quest to read 2 books a month as dictated by my New Year’s Resolutions, so it’s nice to come into these posts knowing making reading a priority is panning out. For this

Girls Recap Episode 5.01 “Wedding Day” (Season Premiere)

And we are back! It feels like it has been ages since we last saw Girls. Where we last left off the girls were all heading toward different directions. Shosh was gonna go to Japan, something finally clicked with Jessa and made her realize that she wanted to help people out by becoming a therapist, Marnie became engaged to Desi, and Hannah as we saw 6 months later decided to take a chance with Fran and they totally looked happy together. And now here we are with the season premiere where finally it’s Marnie’s wedding day and some things don’t go according to plan, we see the birth of maybe a new relationship, but it’s complicated as you’ll see why and it’s finally great to see all the girls together again…so let’s jump right in.

Film Review: The Witch

It seems strange to start my review of The Witch with how I felt by the end, but it seems as good a place as any. In fact, letting you know that I felt shook to my core and completely unable to deal is probably the kind of reassurance one would need when considering whether

Film Review: Deadpool

At what point does being self-aware of a genre actually start to work against you? This was a question I pondered upon leaving my packed and pretty amped up screening of Deadpool. Surrounded by people who were raving about the film, I found myself in a weird place of feeling like I was giving the movie a bad grade, despite my immense like for the film.

A Conversation with Nate Parker

It’s always nice when someone exceeds your already high expectations. At the Pan African Film Festival, Nate Parker sat down with several guests and talked about his new film The Birth of a Nation. I was able to record the conversation via phone and it really is a wonderful exploration of history, blackness, as well

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