(***) Ruben Studdard is a love ambassador and a superstar. It’s been a journey. Let him tell you… It seems like Studdard won American Idol yesterday. But that was 20 years ago. He’s grown as an artist since then. His talent as a vocalist extraordinaire is on view as he tours his Luther Vandross tribute […]
Barbie
(***) Do blondes have more fun? She does. He doesn’t. In Barbie Land, Barbie (Margot Robbie) and her posse (Issa Rae, Dua Lipa, Alexandra Shipp) run the queendom. Her boy toy Ken (Ryan Gosling) and his clones (Simu Liu, Kingsley Ben-Adir, Ncuti Gatwa, John Cena) don’t. The young women are proud to be presidents, astronauts […]
Oppenheimer
(****) “I feel like I have blood on my hands.” That admission is uttered by J. Robert Oppenheimer, the theoretical physicist who was the “father of the atomic bomb.” As director of the Los Alamos Laboratory from 1943-45, he was a key figure in the Manhattan Project. A think tank and research/development group that created and […]
Black Ice
(**1/2) Hard to imagine that in the late 1800s men of African descent played hockey in Canada. That’s a major surprise considering the demographics of today’s National Hockey League. But there’s a backstory, an evolution and lots of it is quite sobering. Director Hubert Davis (Oscar® nom Best Documentary, Short Subject for Hardwood) and producers VinayVirmani and […]
Joy Ride
(***1/2) They say girls just want to have fun. But these Asian women can really throw down. If you’re not into R-rated comedies, stay home. If you are, trust the demented tastes of writer/director Adele Lim (writer of Crazy Rich Asians), co-screenwriters Teresa Hsiao (Family Guy) and Cherry Chevapravatdumrong (Family Guy) and producer Seth Rogan. If […]
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
(***) It doesn’t start with a big bang, but it ends with one. Coming off the heels of the phenomenally successful, $1.4B grossing Top Gun: Maverick, expectations for this Tom Cruise vehicle to ignite the summer box office are high. Will it make a billion dollars? Only audiences will decide. “The Entity,” an AI being, threatens […]
Black Actors Take Center Stage at 2023 Tribeca Film Festival
Black actors, in all kinds of films, in all kinds of roles, left their mark on the 2023 Tribeca Film Festival. They starred in movies you can now see in theaters, on the Tribeca At Home app and various streaming services. Cold Copy (**) TV fans know the affable, clever and funny side of Tracee Ellis Ross. But if […]
Black Films Shine on 2023 Tribeca Film Festival
Diverse views of life on earth are showcased annually at the Tribeca Film Festival. Visions and voices from Black filmmakers are shared in their experiences, observations and art. The in-theater portion of the fest (June 7-18) is completed. Now the Tribeca At Home part of the festivities unfolds (June 19 – July 2). Download the Tribeca At Home […]
The Space Race Soars Above the 2023 Tribeca Film Festival
(***1/2) They’re heroes. Space race pioneers. Afronauts. Black folks who powered their way into the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and made a path for others. NASA, a United States government agency, is responsible for science and technology related to air and space. It’s diverse now, but that wasn’t always the case. The integration of this […]
The Gloria Gaynor: I Will Survive Documentary Blesses the 2023 Tribeca Film Festival
(***) “You think I’d lay down and die? Oh no, not I, I will survive…” The lyrics to the song “I Will Survive,” which won the only Grammy for Best Disco Recording in 1980, could also be words written on the first page of Gloria Gaynor’s diary. She’s lived that song. And there she was, after the premiere of her […]
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