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  • Silver Dollar Road — Toronto International Film Festival Review

    (***) Swindlers stealing land from Black folks is an age-old scam. One worth ... [ Read More ]

    Silver Dollar Road — Toronto International Film Festival Review
  • One Life –- Toronto International Film Festival Review 

    (***) Many films have catalogued the personal and miraculous experiences of those who’ve survived ... [ Read More ]

    One Life –- Toronto International Film Festival Review 
  • Flora and Son –- Toronto International Film Festival Review

    (***)  Writer/director John Carney scored big with his Irish rom/dra/mus Once. That gem ... [ Read More ]

    Flora and Son –- Toronto International Film Festival Review
  • Copa 71 — Toronto International Film Festival Review

    (***)  The six all-female, international soccer teams that converged on Mexico City in 1971 ... [ Read More ]

    Copa 71 — Toronto International Film Festival Review
  • Ezra — Toronto International Film Festival Review

    (**)  It’s rare that films venture into the world of autism. In that way, audiences will be ... [ Read More ]

    Ezra — Toronto International Film Festival Review
  • Reptile — Toronto International Film Festival Review

    (**1/2)  Benicio Del Toro doesn’t appear in a lot of films. So, his fans need to ... [ Read More ]

    Reptile — Toronto International Film Festival Review
  • The Holdovers — Toronto International Film Festival Review

    (***)  This gathering of three lost souls, pushed together by circumstance and location, ... [ Read More ]

    The Holdovers — Toronto International Film Festival Review
  • The Teachers’ Lounge – Toronto International Film Festival Review

    (****) New teachers face certain perils whenever they walk into a classroom. Those dangers ... [ Read More ]

    The Teachers’ Lounge – Toronto International Film Festival Review
  • Sing Sing — Toronto International Film Festival Review

    (****) It’s refreshing when a film poses answers to the most confounding social ... [ Read More ]

    Sing Sing — Toronto International Film Festival Review
  • Origin — Toronto International Film Festival Review

    (***)  It’s a lot to contemplate. Race, racism. Caste systems. Engineered prejudice, ... [ Read More ]

    Origin — Toronto International Film Festival Review
  • Lil Nas X: Long Live Montero — Toronto International Film Festival Review

      (***/12)  The job of a good documentary is to speak truths. The job of a ... [ Read More ]

    Lil Nas X: Long Live Montero — Toronto International Film Festival Review
  • Les Indésirables — Toronto International Film Festival Review

    (**1/2)  Back in 2019 French filmmaker Ladj Ly’s directing debut Les ... [ Read More ]

    Les Indésirables — Toronto International Film Festival Review

The Gloria Gaynor: I Will Survive Documentary Blesses the 2023 Tribeca Film Festival

June 11, 2023 By: superuser

(***) “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 […]

Music Fans and Stars Align at Capital Jazz Fest 2023

June 8, 2023 By: superuser

It was heaven! Music fans made their annual pilgrimage to Columbia, Maryland for the Capital Jazz Festival to see top jazz, soul and R&B artists. They celebrated the fest’s 30th Year Anniversary and a good vibe permeated every performance.  Friday night featured Fantasia and Joe performances. Saturday and Sunday brought more heavyweight acts, noon to nighttime. […]

Flamin’ Hot

June 7, 2023 By: superuser

(***1/2) If tenacity was a superpower Richard Montañez would be in the Justice League inspiring people, all over the land. His indomitable spirit is the heart of this thoroughly entertaining and very amusing biofilm.    Montañez’s book, A Boy, A Burrito and A Cookie: from Janitor to Executive, is the source material for this compelling look at a guy who rose from a blue-collar worker in a Southern California Frito-Lay plant to vice […]

Grace Jones Lights Up the 2023 Blue Note Jazz Festival

June 4, 2023 By: superuser

She started off with a bang! The 2023 Blue Note Jazz Festival takes place all over New York City, May 31st to July 2nd. From the Blue Note’s iconic Greenwich Village jazz club (Ron Carter’s Foursight Quartet) to Summer Stage in Central Park (Buddy Guy), BRIC in Brooklyn (Anderson Paak, Robert Glasper) and Manhattan’s Hammerstein Ballroom, […]

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

June 1, 2023 By: superuser

(***1/2) Buckle up, Spider-Man fans. What feels like a barrage of one billion cartoon images is coming your way. Digital effects so massive and rapid-fire your eyeballs will scream for mercy.  The Oscar®-winning 2018 Spider-Man Into the Spider-Verse is a distant 2018 memory. Back then bug-bit, highschooler Miles-Morales (Shameik Moore) lived with his Puerto Rican mom Rio (Luna […]

The Little Mermaid

May 24, 2023 By: superuser

(***1/2) Romantic and social drama ignite this ode to love, tolerance and acceptance.  “He’s a human!” Bellows Triton (Javier Bardem), an underwater sea god, who mistrusts those who live on land. “That doesn’t make him our enemy.” Exclaims Ariel (Halle Bailey), his mermaid daughter as she defends her love for a prince who is a […]

White Men Can’t Jump

May 19, 2023 By: superuser

(**1/2) White men who can’t dunk and the Black men who chide them was a fresh, chuckle-worthy idea back in the day. In today’s world, not so much. When b-ballers Wesley Snipes and Woody Harrelson trashed talked each other in the R-rated 1992 sports/comedy White Men Can’t Jump, their digs were edgy and hilarious. In this […]

Fast X

May 17, 2023 By: superuser

(***) “I don’t know what I just saw. But I liked it!” That’s what movie fans will say collectively when they stagger out of the theater after being assaulted with adrenalin-pumping action scenes for 2h 21m. It’s a formula that’s worked for 22 years, ever since The Fast and Furious premiered in 2001. Team up a crew […]

Unfinished Business

May 8, 2023 By: superuser

(***) A winner! That would describe this very reflective look at women’s professional basketball. From the OG players to today’s socially conscious, media-savvy Gen Zers. For the past year, the face of the WNBA has been Brittany Griner. The 6’9” athlete was accused of carrying hashish oil at an airport near Moscow. She was detained, […]

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3

May 3, 2023 By: superuser

(**1/2) They’re back. This interspecies, intergalactic hodgepodge group of rambunctious space marauders-turned-crusaders is trying to make another bloated Marvel epic fly. Kids and diehard fans will be onboard. Adults may wait for the next flight. They’re cross-galaxies adventurers. Close knit and lose knit all at the same time. In this third installment of the Guardians of […]

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