If you are like me, there wasn’t much interesting that happened with the Super Bowl: from the lack luster and downright crazy commercials (that Nationwide commercial about the dead kid was a mess), a half time performer I could care less about (although she was pretty great and MISSY!), and a winner we’re sure to hate till next year. That we’ve been subjected to Ohio State and Patrtiots wins in back to back months is just….
If you loiter on the interwebs as I tend to do, you’ll often come across articles that have you perplexed. This occurred to me yesterday, during the longest day EVER, when I read a piece over on the site Shadow and Act, titled The Gentrification of Black Film. In said article, author Tanya Steele delivers
As a child of the internet/tech generation, it’s not unusual to note the impact technology has had on your life. Especially as I’ve gotten more involved on social media, my eyes have been opened to new shows, movies, books, slang, people and all other sorts of awesome things. One of those is the BBC Three
It’s not strange to try and make sense of heinous crimes like what happened in Santa Barbara this past weekend. So its no surprise that critics and writers, much like anyone else, look to culture and art to see if there has been any influence. This is what Washington Post critic Ann Hornaday in her
I know by now you all are tired of all the Macklemore think pieces but this is my blog and dammit I’ll write what I want *Cartman voice* To be honest I thought I would stay out of it but something clicked for me the other day.
If you have been following any movie news, you know that 12 Years a Slave, the new Steven McQueen film starring Chiwetel Ejiofer, Michael Fassbender and Lupita N’yongo, is tearing up the festival circuit, inspire all sorts of praise and talk of Oscars. It’s been interesting to see a film made by someone of a dark hue winning raves, but there’s another facet to the conversation surrounding the film that has been confounding me. It all started when Brad Pitt made a comment during a press conference about Americans not asking about why there aren’t more films about slavery and eventually saying that it took an outsider to be able to tell this tale.