After The Dark (The Philosophers) – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Within a Philosophy classroom, containing exemplary students, a game of “what if” is played to test the students beyond the subject of Philosophy.
Movies
Discover our top picks and latest reviews spanning from blockbuster hits to indie films, shorts, and festival premieres across various platforms.
Complete Unknown – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview A woman from a man’s past, long since a memory but not forgotten, returns after 15 years and so begins the questioning of why she left and where she went? Trigger Warning(s): Animal Carcass
Adult World – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview Adult World I won’t necessarily call a coming of age film, but more so a wake-up call. Review (with Spoilers) Adult World is one of the many films I wanted to see at the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival that I was unable to. But, in Adult World’s case, it wasn’t a timing issue, but…
Addicted – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview When a woman finds her husband unable to please her like she wants, she ventures out to find some men who can. Trigger Warning: Rape scene Review (with Spoilers) Before 50 Shades of Grey was synonymous with mainstream erotica, there was the author Zane. Someone who wrote erotic books featuring Black characters and even…
About Time – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview Despite being advertised as a romantic movie, the real focus is on the relationship between brother and sister, as well as son and dad. Review (with Spoilers) For me, the main draw was seeing “From the creator of Love Actually” on the poster, as well as seeing Bill Nighy and Rachel McAdams’ name attached….
About Last Night – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview A movie where two couples are trying to figure out when friends with benefits, become a full-fledged relationship. Review (with Spoilers) In Kevin Hart’s 2nd feature of the year, he reunited with Michael Ealy and Regina Hall to bring us a remake of a film that I honestly never saw. But, with Kevin Hart…
About Elly – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview With one woman’s lie, one’s disappearance, and tensions high, you are presented a Muslim version of what seems like a familiar story. Director: Asghar Farhadi Writer: Asghar Farhadi (screenplay), Azad Jafarian, and Asghar Farhadi (story) Review (with Spoilers) – Below
About Alex – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview A group of college friends congregates after one of their own attempt suicide. Trigger Warning(s): Suicide
Aaliyah: The Princess of R&B – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview Aaliyah’s rise to stardom is chronicled but without the essential things needed for a decent biopic. Review (with Spoilers) With all the negative press about the movie, I was certainly not expecting a film like CrazySexyCool. However, I was hoping it would perhaps at least be like Jimi: All Is By My Side and…
A Thousand Times Good Night – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview When your career deals with being an observer, it makes the moments in which you are expected to be a participant difficult. Review (with Spoilers) Thanks to watching The Graham Norton Show, in which star Juliette Binoche was amongst the guest, I found out about this movie. It should be noted, though, another big…
A Birder’s Guide to Everything – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview A year and a half after a boy’s mother dies, his father remarries and with his dad partly moving on, the son decides to go off and connect with his mom through the career she loved.
A Perfect Day – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview It’s 1995 and somewhere in the Balkans a group of aid workers are looking for a rope to get a body out of a well. Pretty much, outside of some bickering between two people who used to mess around with each other, that’s the movie.
A Million Ways To Die In The West – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview One man seeks happiness and validation in the wrong woman, who dumps him. Luckily for him, though, a new woman enters his life and seems ready to compensate any feelings he is ready to give. Review (with Spoilers) Though controversial, it is hard to say Seth MacFarlane, with his R-rated Looney Tunes style of…
A Long Way Down – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview A suicide pact between strangers creates lifesaving friendships. Trigger Warning(s): Conversations about Suicide
A La Mala – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview A young actress finds herself testing men’s fidelities while she waits for her big break. One which may come if she does one last job.
A Ballerina’s Tale – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview To begin, A Ballerina’s Tale is not a full coverage of Misty Copeland’s life from birth to her becoming the principal dancer at the American Ballet Theater. It is more so an overview of her professional career, with a strong feature on the history of Ballet, as well as Black women’s role in the…
6 Years – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
While finding and being with your high school sweetheart is seen as an ideal and romanticized, “6 Years” pushes a reminder of the challenges of getting with someone, and staying with them, throughout the most transformative years of your life.
50 Shades of Black – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Plot Overview A young woman meets a rich man who demeans her verbally and physically, yet she keeps giving him chances for reasons never really explained. Rating: Skip It
5 to 7 – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
When you combine the talents of Olivia Thirlby, Anton Yelchin, as well as Glenn Close and Frank Langella, it is hard to not feel a bit reassured that the film should be decent. Especially since Yelchin is the star and we learn he plays a young aspiring writer who gets involved in an affair. Now,…
5 Flights Up – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview While 5 Flights Up touches on a handful of social issues, like gentrification, racial profiling, ageism, and racism to a certain degree, it pretty much is a light film dealing with an older couple trying to decide what’s next in their lives? Review (with Spoilers) – Below
+1 – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Admittedly, I was drawn into this movie for it seemed like it would sort of be like About Time since it seemingly featured a guy trying to work things out with his girlfriend after failing the first time, but seemingly getting a second chance due to time travel. However, as the trailer went on, and…
20 Feet From Stardom – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview Behind the voices of Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder, Luther Vandross, Sting, Elton John, The Rolling Stones, and many others, were Black background singers that did more than just sing the hook, but give these musicians soul! This is their stories.
12 Years a Slave – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
12 Years A Slave tests your ability to stand the gruesomeness of slavery and, to me, it seems Steve McQueen tried to cover every aspect possible of slavery, rather than just focus on the long suffering male.
Ten Thousand Saints (2015) – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
After a sudden death and pregnancy, many lives changed forever and this film is about the guilt which inspires many people’s decisions over the course of 9 months.
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (Film) – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview Whether you’ve read the book or became interested due to the trailer or the name Tim Burton, beware! For while you may be entertained enough to not notice the two-hour time length, you will be left feeling the time could have been better spent.
Captain America: Civil War – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
The Marvel formula is back for another round and this time the focus is on a hero’s responsibility when it comes to collateral damage, especially when it comes to the innocent lives lost as they fight for the greater good. After all, what breeds villains more than the desire for revenge?
Keanu – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Plot Overview Keanu seems like a running gag on Key & Peele which, with their show ending, got a grand sendoff. Rating: TV Viewing Review Summary Let me begin by saying that I wasn’t necessarily a fan of the stars back during their Mad TV days, and have pretty much since then only saw them…
Barbershop: The Next Cut – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Plot Overview With the Southside of Chicago becoming engulfed in constant violence, and Calvin’s son starting to slowly fall prey to local gangs, Calvin comes at the crossroad of fighting against the violence or moving away. Rating: TV Viewing Review Summary Feeding off the #BlackLivesMatter movement, Ice Cube and company seem to throw their own…
Hail, Caesar! – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview If Hail, Caesar! was about any of the films we only see snippets of, it might have actually been enjoyable. That is, as opposed to the nonsense focused on.
Ashby – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview Ashby is the type of film which sadly focuses on the wrong character. For while Mickey Rourke presents the type of character which could have been groundbreaking, he is stuck playing a father figure to a pretentious kid.
Attack on Titan (Movie) – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview Attack On Titan loses quite a bit of what made the anime good, but even with the creative license took, a handful of the action scenes sort of balance it out.
Paper Towns (Movie) – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Initial Thoughts As someone who has read the book, much less took notes while reading it to break it down chapter by chapter, honestly I was sort of excited for the film. Albeit, Paper Towns is my least favorite John Green book, and honestly I feel like I was meh on it overall, but there…
Aloha – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview Aloha tries present a complex story dealing with new love, and one which was abandoned; Hawaii’s culture; and a chance at redemption which may leave a person’s morality in flux. All of which isn’t honestly handled the best way, but it does end with giving you a few nice fuzzy feelings. Review (with Spoilers)…
College Musical – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview YouTube sensations Kurt Schneieder and Sam Tsui combine their talents into a musical which may have the tired old storyline of many a rom-com, but can be potentially enjoyable. Review (with Spoilers) – Below
Barely Lethal – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview Barely Lethal is the type of movie which, due to gun violence, cursing, and mild sexuality, is just barely a little too risqué to be something you’d expect to see premiere on Nickelodeon or, at its mildest moments, the Disney Channel. Review (with Spoilers) – Below
The Imitation Game – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview One high functioning autistic gay man finds himself becoming the hero no one expected him to be. Review (with Spoilers) – Below
Big Eyes – Summary/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview As usual, Christopher Waltz steals the movie as his fellow actors try to keep up. Review (with Spoilers) – Below
Young Ones – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview Young Ones is like a post-apocalyptic western focused on life after a severe drought ruins a local area’s economy. Review (with Spoilers) With quite a few familiar names amongst the cast such as Nicholas Hoult, Elle Fanning, as well as Kodi Smit-McPhee, I felt instantly drawn to the film. However, as time goes on…
Automata – Overview/ review (with Spoilers)
Overview Automata is similar to I, Robot, but without the charisma of Will Smith to help keep things interesting.
