Families come in all sizes and shapes. Immediate, extended, separated and crazy too. These films, from the 60th annual New York Film Festival, showcased how loving, eccentric or dysfunctional familial relations can be. Aftersun (**1/2) Calum (Paul Mescal, Normal People), a divorced Scottish father living in England, reunites with his 11-year-old daughter Sophie (Francesca Corio). They meet up on a weekend trip at a Turkish resort they’ve frequented […]
Women at Work at the 2022 New York Film Festival
For 60 years, the New York Film Festival has programmed films from around the world that profile women’s issues. In 2022, the festival continued that tradition with movies that chronicled the female experience from centuries ago to modern times. Corsage (**1/2) You can’t deny the sheer beauty of this very exquisitely crafted biopic. Nearly every frame in […]
Black Adam
(**1/2) Look! Up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s… Black Adam? Who? Introducing DC Comics’ latest crime combatant, Black Adam. His superhero traits are similar to Superman’s (flying, ultra-strength, etc.), but there are key differences. One has a pleasant personality and values human lives, and the other, an angry malcontent, doesn’t […]
Till Debuts at 2022 New York Film Festival
(****)“Hardly a moment goes by when I don’t think about Emmett and the lessons a son can teach a mother.” Quoted from Mamie Till-Mobley. Emmett Till, a black teen, was murdered by racists in Money, Mississippi on April 28th in 1955. Writer/director Chinonye Chukwu (Clemency) and cowriters Michael Reilly and Keith Beauchamp (doc filmmaker of the […]
Diverse Voices Reign at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival
They came from far and near. Diverse voices expressing thoughts and stories in noteworthy films. People coping, rebounding, laughing, unraveling mysteries and putting life into perspective were seen and heard at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival. Bros (***) The first 30 minutes of this very contemporary and contemplative gay rom/com have got to be the funniest […]
Black Life Lights Up the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival
The 2022 Toronto International Film Festival roared back to its splendor with in-theater premieres and showings. Thousands upon thousands of international film lovers flocked to cinemas, viewed the latest wave of diverse voices and watched Black films that reflected Black life. Devotion (**1/2) Back in the ‘50s, pilot Jesse Brown made history as the US Navy’s first Black aviator. […]
Slutty Vegan Brings Sexy Plant-Based Burgers And Southern Hospitality To Brooklyn
Aisha “Pinky” Cole blew up the vegan cuisine scene with her sexy, witty and rebellious vibe. Now the plant-based food queen is extending her Slutty Vegan restaurant empire into Brooklyn. To read the entire Slutty Vegan article on Essence.com, CLICK HERE or go to: https://www.essence.com/lifestyle/essence-eats/slutty-vegan-brooklyn/
Tyler Perry’s A Jazzman’s Blues Premieres at Toronto Film Festival 2022
(***1/2) Writer/director Tyler Perry had never had a movie programed at the prestigious Toronto International Film Festival. He said as much on the night of his latest film’s premiere. On stage he revealed that the script was written 27-years ago, and he was proud to have A Jazzman’s Blues open at TIFF. The audience seemed […]
The Woman King Crowns the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival
(***1/2) The mighty women of the Agojie were warriors. From the 1600s to1800s in the West African Kingdom of Dahomey this all-female military regiment gallantly fought their empire’s enemies. Film fans first glimpsed the Dahomey Amazon legacy in the Marvel movie Black Panther, where the Dora Milaje special forces in the fictional nation of Wakanda were modeled after those […]
Jose Feliciano: Behind This Guitar
(***) He came before them… Before Jimi Hendrix and Whitney Houston took creative license with “The Star-Spangled Banner” and before Marc Anthony and Bad Bunny sang salsa and reggaeton, José Monserrate Feliciano Garcia blazed a path. And now this nostalgic scrapbook of his life catalogues his trials and triumphs. Born blind in 1945, he lived […]
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