Posts Tagged ‘Regina King’
Top 15 Films of 2025 – Allen’s Picks
2025 felt like a transitional year for the movies, a lot of which was not good. Several big screen legends left us, including (but not limited to) Diane Keaton, Robert Redford, Gene Hackman, Val Kilmer, and David Lynch. Of course, the industry is still in shock from the untimely passing…
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Episode 132 – Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania
For this week’s episode, we review Marvel‘s latest science fiction epic, Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania. We also discuss the prospect of a new Lord of the Rings movie franchise. For the streaming homework, we look back at John Singleton‘s 1993 film, Poetic Justice, starring…
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Film Review – One Night in Miami
One Night in Miami (2020) sets up a fictional “What If” scenario. What if you took four 20th century Black icons – Malcolm X, Muhammad Ali, Jim Brown, and Sam Cooke – and congregated them into one room. What would happen? What would their conversation be like?…
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Top 15 Films of 2018 – Allen’s Picks
The beauty of cinema is how it works as a reflection of our society – our hopes, our fears, and our desires. Films are a timestamp of who were, who we are, and what we could possibly be. A thousand years from now, people can…
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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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