The Curse of La Llorona (2019) |Movie Review|
Mexican folklore gets the big screen treatment with the The Curse of La Llorona – an entry into The Conjuring Universe – about the ghost of a woman who drowned her children and haunts…
The Public (2019) |Movie Review|
Homelessness, race, mental illness, government responsibility and social advocacy are just a few things that director and writer Emilio Estevez is trying to address in his newest film, The Public. Estevez stars…
The Mustang (2019) |Movie Review|
Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre takes the reins with her feature film directorial debut, The Mustang. The Focus Features’ drama stars Matthias Schoenaerts as an incarcerated convict in Nevada, and his journey while participating in…
Hellboy (2019) |Movie Review|
Rising from the depths of hell comes a reboot that the devil himself wouldn’t want to watch. Based on the Dark Horse Comic of the same name, Hellboy is a reboot of…
Shazam (2019) |Movie Review|
Some heroes are zapped and modified – SHAZAM – that may have been a reach, but this was a Christmas movie that I didn’t know we needed. Originally named Captain…
Pet Sematary (2019) |Movie Review|
“Sometimes dead is better” – could be the most literal tagline for a film in the history of cinema. Pet Sematary is the second adaptation of the 1983 novel of the…
Concert Review: No Deal. No Label. Just Durham. – Tobe Nwigwe Sold Out Bull City On Back-to-Back Nights
Tobe from the SWAT Tour (The Extension) – 4.3.19 (Bull City) View this post on Instagram Just Bull City with No Label. #HipHop #TobeFromTheSwatTour #WomenProduce #Durham #bullcity #livemusic #GetTwistedSundays #Ouu…
Dumbo (2019) |Movie Review|
“Let’s get ready for Duuuuummbbbo,” is an actual line said by the legendary boxing announcer Michael Buffer and reader, I, was not ready for Dumbo. Directed by Tim Burton, Dumbo is a live-action adaptation of…
Us (2019)|Movie Review|
Following up on the 2016 hit, Get Out, director and writer Jordan Peele does not suffer from a sophomore slump with his latest horrifying, psychological thriller, Us. Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions and Blumhouse have teamed up with…
Captain Marvel (2019) |Movie Review|
International Women’s Day 2019 coincided with the release of Marvel Studios’ newest film, Captain Marvel. The twenty-first entry in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the first one with a female led…
Greta (2019) |Movie Review|
So far, 2019 has not been a good year for Hungarian characters in film and director Neil Jordan’s Greta attempts to buck the trend. The psychological-thriller stars Chloe Grace Moretz as Frances McCullen…
Oscars 2019: Ranking The Best Picture Nominees And Other Academy Awards Winning Predictions
Tonight on ABC, the Academy of Motion Pictures of Arts and Sciences presents the 91st Academy Awards, more commonly referred to as the Oscars. The award ceremony will honor the…
Alita: Battle Angel (2019) |Movie Review|
Alita: Battle Angel answers the question that everyone has asked: “What would happen if the creator of Avatar teamed up with the creator of Spy Kids to create a live-action…
Fighting With My Family (2019)|Movie Review|
“This is my house” is the catchphrase that introduced Paige to the WWE Universe. Fighting With My Family is the biopic that introduced her to the rest of the world. …
Happy Death Day 2U (2019) |Movie Review|
February 14th is a day known for love, romance and a giant baby piercing people in their hearts. Cupid isn’t shooting arrows, but instead this Valentine’s Day, Blumhouse and Universal…
The Prodigy (2019) |Movie Review|
**Spoiler FREE Review** What’s wrong with Miles? The latest release from Orion Pictures, The Prodigy, tries to answer that question. The supernatural horror-thriller is director Nicholas McCarthy’s third theatrical release, with…
Canal Street (2019) |Movie Review|
In today’s world people are quick to judge before knowing all of the facts. “Guilty until proven innocent,” is the tagline for director Rhyan Lamarr’s newest film, Canal Street. Canal…
Dragon Ball Super: Broly |Movie Review|
The Dragon Ball franchise has made its theatrical return with Dragon Ball Super: Broly. Created by Akira Toriyama, the Japanese anime is the highest grossing film in the franchise and one of the…
Review: ‘Trigger Warning With Killer Mike’ Is One Of The Best Docuseries On Netflix |Small Screen|
Trigger Warning: Some may find the content in this review offensive. DO YOU BANK BLACK!? Michael Render, aka Killer Mike, has always been known as a black-banking enthusiast. The Grammy-award winning rapper…
Shoplifters (2018) |Movie Review|
What really makes a family? Type the word into Google and this is the result:Director Hirokazu Kore-eda’s newest film, Shoplifters, takes these definitions and explores them in a realistic, heartbreaking and insightful…
Glass (2019) |Movie Review|
**Spoiler Free Review** The Eastrail 177 trilogy has finally reached its last stop with Glass, M. Night Shyamalan’s newest film. Glass serves as the sequel to the highly successful, critically…
Review: The first season of Netflix’s ‘You’ is addicting, messy, controversial, problematic and fun.|Small Screen|
This past weekend one of my friends (shoutout to Esméralda) asked me if I had ever seen You on Netflix. I had not…but after learning of the premise of the show I…
Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019) |Trailer Thoughts|
Coming off the heels of the highly praised Into the Spider-Verse, spider-senses are tingling as the highly anticipated (teaser!) trailer for Spider-Man: Far From Home has finally been released. The sequel to 2017’s Spider-Man: Homecoming sees our…
Replicas (2018) |Movie Review|
Replicas is a fitting title for a film that pretends to be authentic. The science-fiction thriller stars Keanu Reeves as Will Foster, a research neuroscientist whose family is killed in a…
If Beale Street Could Talk (2018) |Movie Review|
After releasing 2016’s Moonlight, director Barry Jenkins has returned with his latest film, If Beale Street Could Talk, which is based on James Baldwin’s 1974 novel of the same name. The runner-up for the Toronto International…
Bumblebee (2018) |Movie Review|
The prequel to the Transformers franchise is a transformation worth seeing. Bumblebee is the sixth film in the franchise for the Robots in Disguise, and serves as a prequel to 2007’s Transformers. Based on the Hasbro Transformers toyline, Bumblebee is…
Escape Room (2019) |Movie Review|
Escape the room and survive is the synopsis for Sony’s newest psychological thriller, Escape Room. Directed by Adam Robitel, Escape Room, follows six strangers as they try to work their way through multiple…
Vice (2018) |Movie Review|
The start of the aughts began with the Y2K scare, and by the end of 2000, the results were in for the most controversial at the time election in American history, and…
Top 10: Best Films of 2018 |Year in Review|
It’s that time of year where everyone is creating lists and recapping 2018. Yesterday, we counted down our Top 10 Most Underappreciated Films of 2018, and as we look forward to…
The Top 10 Most Underappreciated Films of 2018 |Year in Review|
As the year is coming to an end, I wanted to close out the year with a few movies that went under the radar this year. These movies may have…
Aquaman (2018) |Movie Review|
To “Unite the Seven,” we have to take a deep-dive into the sixth installment in the DC Extended Universe. The James Wan directed film about the aquatic-human known as Arthur…
Bird Box (2018) |Movie Review|
On the longest day of the year, December 21, 2018, Netflix released their newest post-apocalyptic thriller, Bird Box, starring Sandra Bullock. The film is based on a 2014 novel of the same name written…
Green Book (2018) |Movie Review|
From the Farrelly brother that gave us the infamous anthology comedy Movie 43 comes Green Book, a drama-comedy that is getting serious Oscar buzz this awards season. The Peter Farrelly directed film gets its…
Roma (2018) |Movie Review|
Netflix’s latest movie to receive critical praise and generate buzz this upcoming award season is Roma. The film is a semi-autobiographical take on writer and director Alfonso Cuarón’s upbringing in Mexico…
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) |Movie Review|
After being turned into dust, your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man has made his theatrical return, but this Spidey is from a different universe. From the studio that has made some questionable decisions when…
Wendy’s Bacon Maple Chicken Sandwich doesn’t waffle out on a classic pairing |Food Review|
Wendy’s, the fast-food chain whose tweets stay true to its red-headed mascot because they have no-soul, better yet they’re true to their slogan because they’re always fresh and never frozen when it comes…
Avengers: Endgame (2019) |Trailer Thoughts|
“WE’RE IN THE END GAME NOW.” The words above were uttered by Doctor Strange after Thanos deebo’d the Time stone from him and all hope seemed lost. This past Friday, Marvel Studios’…
Bodied (2018) |Movie Review|
A thesis on the poetic function of the ‘n-word’ in battle rap is the catalyst for Bodied, a satirical drama-comedy into the world of battle rap. The film is produced by the…
Captain Marvel (2019) |Trailer Thoughts|
Update: Check out the full review here. After much anticipation, the second official trailer for Captain Marvel was released last night. The film will be the twenty-first entry in the Marvel Cinematic…
Happy Death Day 2U (2019) |Trailer Thoughts|
February 14th is a day for love, romance and a giant baby piercing people in their hearts. Cupid isn’t shooting arrows, but instead on Valentine’s Day, Blumhouse and Universal are…
Creed II |Movie Review|
A hard-hitting sequel that goes the distance is the best way to describe Creed II, the eighth entry in the Rocky series and the second of the Creed spin-off films. The sports-drama is directed by…
Widows |Movie Review|
Director Steve McQueen’s (12 Years a Slave) latest film Widows, based on the television series with the same name, is a heist film that’s filled with social commentary and compelling…
Concert Review: ¡Mayday! produces a vibe that is unmatched with their South of 5th Tour
¡Mayday! – South of 5th Tour 11.17.18 (ATL) Location: Atlanta, GA Venue: The Vinyl @ Center Stage Label: Strange Music Performers: ¡Mayday! (featuring 1Ton, D.U.Ivan and Phil Mauro) On another…
Can You Ever Forgive Me? |Movie Review|
“You pissed in a closet,” an actual quote from a film I just watched about the life of an author turned letter forger and it was… incredible. The biopic Can You…
Concert Review: Tobe Nwigwe Brings The Heat Rock With First Sold Out Show In Atlanta
Tobe from the SWAT 11.15.18 (ATL) Location: Atlanta, GA Venue: The Loft @ Center Stage Label: ETA Records (Independent) Performers: Tobe Nwigwe (with Fat) (featuring DJ Big Reeks [Waxaholics],…
Nobody’s Fool (2018) |Movie Review|
🛑 #StopMadea 🛑 They said go see it and write about it for your blog…. so I did. Today, I experienced my first and most likely last Tyler Perry movie on the…
Overlord |Movie Review|
This Veterans Day weekend we have Paramount Pictures’ newest outing Overlord. From the creator of Cloverfield, the J.J. Abrams production is directed by Julius Avery (Son of a Gun) with the story…
POKÉMON: Detective Pikachu |Trailer Thoughts|
Today the trailer for the upcoming movie POKÉMON: Detective Pikachu was released. The movie is based on the game of the same title and is the first film based on the…
Bohemian Rhapsody |Movie Review|
After being caught in development hell a landslide and finally escaping into reality, the long-awaited biopic of the British rock band Queen, Bohemian Rhapsody, has arrived in theaters. The film is a British-American joint venture with production companies…
mid90s |Movie Review|
As a child of the 90s, the nostalgic feeling of the trailer for mid90s resonated with me a lot. The A24 produced throwback film is the directorial debut, written by Jonah Hill.…
The Oath |Movie Review|
Fake news, alternative facts, government mandates, lying leaders, isn’t just America in 2018, but it’s also a country that is ever so divided in a dystopian future in The Oath. Starring, written and…
Halloween (2018) |Movie Review|
40 years later, we finally have a Halloween film that carries the spirit of the original . At the helm is the leader in 21st century horror films, Blumhouse Productions, which has teamed up…
All About Nina |Movie Review|
Eva Vives’s directorial debut All About Nina has a lot to say and is an important movie in today’s climate. Vives started writing the script around 3 years ago, and the film is a semi-biographical…
First Man: Movie Review
Small steps before a giant leap, First Man, delves into the life of astronaut Neil Armstrong and his journey to the Apollo 11 moon landing. Based on Armstrong’s biography, directed by Damien…
Bad Times at the El Royale |Movie Review|
Bad Times at the El Royale was a lot of things, humorous, serious, well-acted, well-directed and visually sharp as getting glass stuck in your head; however, it was long as the border between California…
Bodied: Trailer Thoughts
Update: Click here to check out my review. It’s finally here, after much fanfare and rave reviews from the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival (winning the TIFF People’s Choice Award for…
Hell Fest: Movie Review
Like they say, Autumn is here and it’s the season of fear, okay, maybe no one says that but it’s SCREAMIN’ SZN (season). This is the time of year where…
VENOM |Movie Review|
“Rolling down the street like a turd in the wind,” may have been more than just a threat by Venom, the titular character in Sony’s first entry in their Sony Universe of…
The Journey Begins
Thanks for joining me! Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter. — Izaak Walton
