Goodbye South Central, Goodbye: Elderkin Grapples with Uneven Urban Soap Opera
If Donald Goines had written YA literature, it might have looked something like Gully,...
An American photographer, turned music video director turned filmmaker who found fortune via a peculiar Kanye West encounter, American-Iranian Nabil Elderkin (who was among...
This week’s edition of Tuesday Blus includes the following titles: Dunkirk (2017) - Warner Bros., Detroit (2017) - Twentieth Century Fox, Letter from an...
Horror Hotel: Bigelow and Boal Recount Grim Chapter of Racial Disparity
This year’s most harrowing horror movie, Kathryn Bigelow’s Detroit, happens to be based on...
Untitled Detroit Project
Director: Kathryn Bigelow
Writer: Mark Boal
Kathryn Bigelow breaks a five year hiatus with her latest, the as yet unnamed Untitled Detroit Project, her...
Terms of Amusement: Frankel’s Sentimental Platitudes Ensconce Profoundly Foolish Melodrama
The folly of Will Smith is he’s a performer seemingly unable to differentiate between authentic...
The thrill of meeting Marjane Satrapi reminded me of being 6 years old at Disney Land when I met the living, breathing Cinderella. Except Cinderella was an actress with a blond wig and Marjane is the real woman behind her autobiographical graphic novel, turned movie, “Persepolis”. The distinctive mole on her nose and her dark sultry eyes rose off the page and appeared in front of me, smoking and speaking with a French accent.