Movie Reviews and Other Writings

One Night in Miami is a fictionalized version of a real event. Four Black leaders, Malcolm X, Sam Cooke, Cassius Clay, and Jim Brown, at...

Locked Down is a film about a couple unravelling during the COVID-19 lock down in London. The two have been growing apart for a while and...

CONTENT WARNING: There is a prolonged scene of sexual assault. Pieces of a Woman is about grief. A couple, Martha and Sean, choose to...

Soul is an animated film about Joe Gardner, a jazz musician and teacher, who on the eve of his big break dies when he falls down an open...

DISCLAIMER: I didn't see this film in a theater. I watched it with my HBO Max subscription. I highly recommend you don't go see it in a...

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom is about a recording session for the "Mother of the Blues," Ma Rainey, and her band. The tensions run high as...

I'm Your Woman is about Jean, a thief's wife, whose life is thrown into uncertainty when her husband doesn't come home one night....

The Prom is a musical about a lesbian high school student in a small town in Indiana who just wants to take her girlfriend to prom. The...

I usually don't give much in the way of commentary here. I usually let the films speak for themselves and for the most part, I will with...

Let Them All Talk is about a novelist who is very secretive about her work, and especially her latest project. She's asked to attend an...