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TV Review - Lucifer
It's an adaptation or is loosely inspired by the DC Comics series of the same name. The comics were written by Mike Carey who took a character created by Neil Gaiman, Sam Keith and Mike Dringenberg....
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TV Review - American Crime: Season 2
This ABC series was one of my favorite dramas of 2015. It was nominated for 10 Emmys last year, winning one for Regina King. A few of the other actors were recognized as well.Oscar-winner John Ridley...
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DVD Review - Bone Tomahawk
One hundred movie theaters were converted in order to accommodate the 70mm screenings of The Hateful Eight. It got a wide release in thousands of multiplexes nationwide. It got an incredible amount of...
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DVD Review - The New Girlfriend
Une nouvelle amie is The Danish Girl meets Carol, but set in modern-day France and has a more optimistic tone but just as superficial a tact. It's a roundabout, love affair involving two characters who...
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DVD Review - Chi-Raq (Black History Month)
Black History Month doesn't have to be all about what happened fifty, a hundred or even two-hundred years ago. It can also be recent history. Co-writer and director Spike Lee deals with recent history...
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Movie Review - 4th Man Out
If one didn't know the premise of this film, it doesn't take long to figure out what it is. Evan Todd stars as Adam, a 24-year-old mechanic in Albany, New York, who is nervous about wanting to tell his...
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Movie Review - Hail, Caesar
Joel and Ethan Coen's film feels like a rebuke to Jay Roach's Trumbo. It's set in 1950's Hollywood. It involves a group of writers who identify as Communists who try to subvert or exploit the...
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DVD Review - Shelter (2015)
This film could be a companion piece to last year's Time Out of Mind, the movie that had Richard Gere as a homeless man in New York City. Oscar-winner Jennifer Connelly (A Beautiful Mind) stars as a...
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DVD Review - Freeheld (2015)
It's two movies for the price of one. Not literally, but this film feels like one thing at the start until it pivots and begins to feel like something else.There are clearly two halves. The first is...
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Movie Review - Where to Invade Next
Last year, the Oscar Academy's Documentary Branch determined 15 films as potential nominees from 124 eligible as part of a shortlist. That shortlist included this film by Michael Moore, the most...
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Superficial #OscarsSoWhite, Only a Sixth of Problem
Abel Tesfaye aka The Weeknd,Oscar nominee for Best Original SongOn January 14, the nominations for the 88th Academy Awards were announced, and for the second year in a row, all the acting nominees were...
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DVD Review - Meet the Patels
The producers of the ABC series The Bachelor have been criticized for not having men of color. The likelihood that the dating show would ever have a bachelor of Indian-descent is low. The likelihood...
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VOD Review - Game Face
Jervon Wright in scene from 'Game Face'At the Chicago gathering of the National Gay Basketball Association, or NGBA, a young black man named Jervon Wright spoke. Wright said he had a football...
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TV Review - Legends of Tomorrow
This series is another DC Comics adaptation, helmed or created by Greg Berlanti and his producing partners. It's a spin-off of Arrow and The Flash. I never got into Arrow because it felt like a poor...
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TV Review - Angel From Hell
This series was created by Tad Quill, a writer-producer of Scrubs and Spin City. It was directed by Don Scardino, the helmer of many episodes of 30 Rock and 2 Broke Girls. It stars Jane Lynch, the...
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TV Review - American Crime Story: The People Vs. OJ
Former football star and actor OJ Simpson was on trial for murdering his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend, Ronald Goldman who both died in a brutal and bloody stabbing back in June 1994....
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Movie Review - The Witch
So much about this film is about religion and faith. Whether writer-director Robert Eggers is condemning faith or using the horror genre as a way of embracing it via reverse-psychology is something I...
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Movie Review - Race (2015)
I just reviewed a movie, Game Face, that detailed the life of a black athlete in college. While the obvious focus was that athlete's efforts toward his particular sport, something is lost and a...
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DVD Review - Labyrinth of Lies
This film was Germany's official submission to the 88th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film. It made the December shortlist, but it didn't get the nomination. It was nominated for several...
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TV Review - The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution
On February 7, during the Half-Time Show at Super Bowl 50, R&B singer Beyoncé performed her new song "Formation," which paid tribute to the Black Lives Matter movement, using iconography from the...
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