Settlers (2021) – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
In this sometimes slow-moving sci-fi drama, you’re reminded of what the cost for survival can be in a post-apocalyptic world – and it often is more than you’re willing to give.
Film Festival
From the Montclair Film Festival in New Jersey, New York’s NewFest, Tribeca Film Festival, and Urban World Film Festival, to the famed Sundance Film Festival, here you’ll find our film festival coverage (which contains movies, shorts, and episodic content).
Beautiful They (2021) – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
Beautiful They gives you the soft LGBT+ love story so many ask for but so rarely see.
Magnolia Bloom (2021) – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
In what appears to be one of the final moments of a long movie, we watch as a young woman integrates a room to share a highlight of her life with her people.
BITCHIN’: The Sound and Fury of Rick James (2021) – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
BITCHIN’: The Sound and Fury of Rick James shall be known as the definitive documentary when it comes to Rick James, for it leaves very little left to question or answer.
Esther In Wonderland (2021) – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
Esther In Wonderland is a reminder that Hip-Hop has fans across all cultures and worlds, and they will find what they need one way or another.
Blush (2021) – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
In 11 minutes, you get one of the cutest animated sci-fi love stories since Wall-E.
Asking For It (2021) – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
Asking For It has a B-Movie vibe as it has a group of radical feminists take on incels and the patriarchy.
Dating and New York (2021) – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
Is this a romantic comedy? Yes. However, that doesn’t mean Dating and New York may not make you cry – which it did for us.
7 Days (2021) – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
On top of 7 Days being an opposites attract story, it also taps into stereotypes then expands them to remind you they are ignorant viewpoints of a much more complicated culture.
Poser (2021) – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
Poser operates much like an action movie. The only difference is, rather than sitting through the story to get to the action sequences, in Poser you are awaiting the next musical performance.
Mark, Mary and Some Other People (2021) – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
As open relationships and marriages push for more societal acceptance, the question becomes, if purely in a sexual context, can it work?
Tiny Cow (2021) – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
Boredom can lead to the most inane activities, but it leads to a shocking discovery for Adam.
Beau (2021) – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
On the brink of a major success, two women disagree on the best path forward for one’s career and their shared relationship.
The Orange Child – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
The evolution of self-image is explored as a Black child growing up in France finds a way to be empowered by his Blackness.
Cherry Lemonade (2021 Tribeca Film Festival) – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
After a certain point, you get tired of having to ask someone to take you to the store, so a young girl decides it is time to go on her own.
Waves (2021 – Tribeca Film Festival) – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
With the opportunity to go to prom, a young man wants to look nice, but with an afro and a desire for waves, he can’t just go anywhere, so to an unfamiliar barbershop he goes.
Tina (2021) – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
In Tina, we get one last goodbye from the legend who, with books, movies, and a musical about her life, wishes to move on from the past and enjoy the present and future.
Would You Rather: Season 1 – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
Would You Rather gives you a raw teenage experience, sans the usual sex and drugs.
These Days: Season 1/ Episode 1 “Pilot” – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
It’s April 2020, and all the things one could do to distract oneself while at home have dissipated, and all that’s left is loneliness. Enter Mae, who has decided to take up virtual dating.
Bambirak – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
Who of us didn’t want to spend more time with our parents, specifically see what they did when we weren’t around? That’s what Kati gets to do in Bambirak.
White Wedding (2021) – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
An absent father finds himself working the wedding of the daughter he never got to know.
Bruiser (2021) – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
When your father is the epitome of masculinity, what does it say about you if you aren’t a spitting image of that?
Judas And The Black Messiah (2021) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
Like nearly every well-crafted film about Black oppression in America, Judas and the Messiah will enrage you, tire you out, and make you hope J. Edgar Hoover and his enablers, rot in hell.
BJ’s Mobile Gift Shop (2021) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
The 16 minutes of Jason Park’s BJ’s Mobile Gift Shop will leave you demanding a full-length feature film, featuring Johnnyboy Tellem before 2021 is over.
Ava From My Class (2021) – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
Ava From My Class pushes you to wonder where the line between admiration and a crush is for its young lead.
Wiggle Room (2021) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
Dealing with insurance companies can often be hell, but surely if you see the agent face to face, they’ll help you right?
First Date (2021) – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
If you thought McG’s The Babysitter series was over the top and crazy, Manuel Crosby and Darren Knapp respond with “Challenge accepted” with First Date.
Mayday (2021) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
Mayday touches on the personal war one has within themselves and every single voice or person we see as holding us back – including our own.
Marvelous and the Black Hole – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
Marvelous and the Black Hole, while it can come off as an angsty teenage film, it doesn’t push its lead to move on or get over it but harness that anger into something good.
Passing (2021) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
While the sometimes volatile intimacy between Ruth Negga and Tessa Thompson makes Passing interesting, you may not feel it confronts the subject matter as you want.
R#J – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
We’ve all seen some version of Romeo and Juliet, but none of them compare to Carey Williams’ R#J.
Street Gang: How We Got To Sesame Street – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
Street Gang: How We Got To Sesame Street is filled with nostalgia and fleshes out your childhood memories with what it took to make you smile and learn.
How It Ends (2021) – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
How It Ends combines a drama about reconciliation before the end of the world and all the eccentric people you’d expect to see getting high before everyone dies.
Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
Rita Moreno: Just A Girl Who Decided To Go For It somehow feels like a thorough exploration of a nearly 70-year career, yet because it is Rita Moreno, you still want more!
The Criminals – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
Many young adults worldwide take advantage of privacy, which isn’t legally available to our two leads. But will they risk getting arrested to get it?
Doublespeak – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
In Doublespeak, you are sorely reminded how Human Resources is more focused on protecting the company’s assets than your dignity or sense of safety.
You Wouldn’t Understand – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
Living up to its title a bit, You Wouldn’t Understand presents a story that leaves you wanting to rewatch for you swear you might have missed something.
Gossamer Folds (2020) – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
Despite its subject matter, there is something surprisingly tame about “Gossamer Folds,” which shows how tolerance and acceptance develops over hate.
Ellie and Abbie (And Ellie’s Dead Aunt) (2020) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
Despite a few painfully awkward moments, “Ellie and Abbie (And Ellie’s Dead Aunt” does ultimately give you what you need from it.