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Becoming a well-trained, wise assassin is a popular look for the aging movie star, and in its most successful cases it has helped redefine how we see different actors. It’s been custom-tailored for the likes of...

A wise man once told me that funerals bring out the best in people but weddings bring out the worst. There are inevitable conflicts about whose traditions should be honored, awkward encounters with people we’ve never...

The 2022 American Black Film Festival (ABFF) returns as a hybrid with live events starting today, June 15th, and running through Sunday, June 19th (Juneteenth), in Miami, Florida, followed by virtual panels and screenings Monday, June 20th,...

There are certain varieties of whimsy that either click with you or don’t. I point this out because what didn’t click for me in “Brian and Charles,” a new comedy directed by Jim Archer, might do something...

A man in a suit enters a handsomely appointed but subliminally off-putting room. It’s an old man’s study; it couldn’t be anything else. The man changes into a smoking jacket, pours himself a drink, gets a...

Starting this coming Sunday, June 19th, we will celebrate Juneteenth with our second Black Writers Week 2022. We have invited back three film critics and journalists to once again serve as Guest Editors to help us shape the content...

Pop star documentaries that go behind the scenes, beyond a chart-topper’s spotlight are nothing new—musical icons Bob Dylan and Madonna dabbled in the form with their respective landmark films “Don’t Look Back” and “Truth or Dare,” and...

“Lightyear” is not the origin story of the Buzz Lightyear toy from Pixar’s “Toy Story” series. It’s the origin story of the reason the Buzz Lightyear toy wound up in Andy’s bedroom. You see, Andy’s Mom...

“I saw with my own eyes, the dead burying their own dead.”  In the opening scene of Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese’s “This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection,” we see smeared glimpses of a horse that...

The best show you’re probably not watching returns on Sunday, 6/12 with the third season premiere of the excellent “Evil” on Paramount+. After a first season that ran on CBS, the network pushed the show to...