Posts Tagged ‘Colman Domingo’
Film Review – Dead Man’s Wire
In 1977, Tony Kiritsis walked into an Indianapolis mortgage firm with a sawed-off shotgun. Kiritsis was convinced that the company was responsible for unfairly striking down a real estate deal that he had invested all his time, effort, and money into. In a rage, he…
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Top 15 Films of 2024 – Allen’s Picks
Normally, when I sit down to write these end of year lists, I have a fairly good understanding of where certain films will land. The top five to seven entries are usually locked into place, and it’s just a matter of sorting out the remaining…
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Episode 82 – Candyman (2021)
For this episode of the podcast, we review the horror sequel/reboot, Candyman, produced by Jordan Peele‘s company, Monkeypaw. We also discuss why some online haters love to complain about the popularity of A24. As our streaming homework, we review the 1998 X Files movie and…
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Film Review – Candyman (2021)
Candyman (2021) attempts to be both a direct sequel and course correction of the 1992 film, directed by Bernard Rose (based on Clive Barker’s short story). The first iteration had plenty of slick horror while establishing one of the genre’s long-lasting villains in Tony Todd’s…
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Film Review – Zola
Zola spawned from a series of tweets in October 2015 from A’Ziah “Zola” King. This film may be the first of its kind to have its source material from Twitter, but I am sure it won’t be the last. Although I missed those viral tweets that day,…
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Film Review – If Beale Street Could Talk
What writer/director Barry Jenkins has proven – both in his Oscar winning Moonlight (2016) and now with If Beale Street Could Talk (2018) – is his ability to take deep, humanistic emotions and play it out in lyrical fashion. Seeing his visuals unfold is like…
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