Fast Color is a welcomed far cry from the status quo. This review contains minor spoilers for Fast Color and a brief interview with Saniyya Sidney. Fast Color played on only 25 screens in April and didn’t stay in theaters very long. That’s a damn shame, and it’s incredibly frustrating, because Fast Color is wonderful....
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James Franco’s ‘The Disaster Artist’ is Simply White Male Mediocrity
Don’t pity Tommy Wiseau for not getting a word in at the Golden Globes, both him and Franco are celebrated for nothing more than being overconfident assholes. By Nicole Froio Once you’re awake, you can’t ever truly enjoy a movie again. That’s the conclusion I got to watching James Franco’s “The Disaster Artist”, a comedy...
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Jay-Z’s 4:44 is apologetic, but it doesn’t fully delve into toxic masculinity
4:44 is a raw look into Jay-Z’s mind. He offers explanations and apologies for years of toxic behavior. Last week, Jay-Z’s 13th studio album, “4:44″ was released. It’s the response that folks had been waiting for ever since Beyoncé’s visual album, “Lemonade” dropped last year. The album chronicled the experiences of a woman betrayed by her lover and...
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Reading Janet Mock’s ‘Surpassing Certainty’ As A Black Trans Woman
The power of Janet Mock rests in her accessibility and relatability. Goddesses must bless Amazon’s algorithms because in late spring 2014 Janet Mock’s bounteous afro halo was featured in a little thumbnail picture of related interests thanks to my previous purchases. In her first book, “Redefining Realness,” I gained a mentor who ushered me into...
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All-Female ‘Ghostbusters’ is Far From Perfect, but You’re Still Gonna Wanna See It
I’d like to start off my review of Ghostbusters 2016 — which opens today — by getting some things out of the way right off the bat: 1. I am a huge fan of the original Ghostbusters and have seen it probably more times than any other film; randomly quoting lines like, “Listen! You smell...