Origin (2024) – Movie Review
In many ways, “Origins” feels like a one-hour documentary turned 2+ hour drama despite having strong enough thoughts and messages that didn’t need a dramatization.
Ava DuVernay
Cherish The Day: Season 2 – Summary/ Review (with Spoilers)
Season 2 of “Cherish The Day” may have well-cast leads set for a perfect romance, but in the pursuit of perfection, there is an avoidance of necessary conflict.
Queen Sugar: Season 7 – Summary/ Review (with Spoilers)
The final season of “Queen Sugar” delivers in a way few long-running series have done.
Queen Sugar: Season 7/ Episode 13 [Finale] – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
OWN’s legendary show “Queen Sugar” comes to an end, but is it an ending that delivers what fans have longed for, or is it bittersweet all over?
Queen Sugar: Season 7/ Episode 11 – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
As we approach the end of “Queen Sugar,” it increasingly becomes clear that the happy ending long promised may no longer be a dangled carrot in front of our faces.
Queen Sugar: Season 7/ Episode 8 – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
The opportunity for closure and resolution is presented for many, but is it the best course of action across the board?
Queen Sugar: Season 7/ Episode 7 – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
While a literal storm is on the horizon, the people it brings to St. Jo are worth worrying about.
Queen Sugar: Season 6/ Episode 9 “Tossing In The Meadows” – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
As the family prepares for the birth of its newest member, a recent discovery may provide hope for saving the farm.
Queen Sugar: Season 5 – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
Season 5 of Queen Sugar, despite addressing the COVID-19 pandemic and 2020’s Black Lives Matter movement, is a reprieve from what the show has perennially given viewers.
Queen Sugar: Season 5/ Episode 10 – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
In the season 5 finale, we’re reminded that, despite Queen Sugar often feeling about struggle, those fights are for the joy everyone knows they deserve.
Queen Sugar: Season 5/ Episode 9 – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
Multiple bombshells are dropped as Ralph Angel, and Darla make a decision with Blue, and Nova discovers something that could end her relationship with Calvin.
Queen Sugar: Season 5/ Episode 7 “June 1, 2020” – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
Someone in the Bordelon family may have COVID, another faces relationship troubles, and someone also faces off with a cop – making for a nail-biting episode.
Queen Sugar: Season 5/ Episode 5 “May 19, 2020” – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
It’s the calm before the storm as Ralph Angel and Darla have a whirlwind wedding filled with love and joy.
Queen Sugar: Season 5/ Episode 4 “Early May 2020” – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
As Calvin’s daughter comes to Nova’s home to quarantine, and Hollywood struggles to see his mother, Micah and Charley clash, and Ralph Angel falls deeper in love with Darla.
Cherish The Day: Season 1 – Recap, Review (with Spoilers)
“Cherish The Day” with its sometimes complicated, yet never messy, love story answers the call for rich Black love stories.
Cherish The Day: Cast and Character Guide
A character & show guide for OWN’s Cherish The Day featuring cast members, character descriptions, and other noteworthy information.
Cherish The Day: Season 1 Episode 1 “Genesis” [Series Premiere] – Recap/ Review
OWN continues to be one of the premier networks for dramas featuring elite Black talent, and Ava DuVernay’s “Cherish The Day” furthers the network’s legacy.
Collected Quotes & .Gifs For The Month: May 2019
In this post, you’ll find quotes and .gifs collected or made during the month of May 2019.
Queen Sugar: Season 3 – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
Season 3 of Queen Sugar feels like a transition season as it wraps up the trials and tribulations of the first two seasons and preps for the show’s future.
August 28: A Day in the Life of a People – Recap/ Review
August 28: A Day in the Life of a People needs to be a perennial feature on OWN, and a play done across the nation during Black History Month.
A Wrinkle In Time – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
While A Wrinkle In Time introduces the world to its saving grace, Deric McCabe, many may find the fantasy elements downplayed and certain themes taking time which would have been better used to craft a more faithful adaptation.
Queen Sugar: Season 2/ Episode 16 “Dream Variations” [Season Finale] – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
Do not expect resolutions to any of your pressing questions in the season 2 finale of Queen Sugar. Hold onto them until season 3, unfortunately.
Selma – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview Rather than be an ensemble movie about all those involved in the Selma to Montgomery March, this is but another film focused on the role of Black men as the women either play wives, girlfriends or just stay silent in the background. Trigger Warning(s): Police Brutality Review (with Spoilers) – Below
