The Part of Nerd Culture That Loves You Back
The official poster for 20th Century Fox’s The Hate U Give has arrived, and it’s an interesting re-imagining of the original cover art for Angie Thomas’ New York Times bestseller. The poster retains the simplicity of the source, centering a Black girl holding a large protest […]
I’m not a huge fan of the Alien prequels, Prometheus and Alien: Covenant, but I do appreciate the additional lore they’ve provided. I recently rewatched Alien: Covenant, paying more attention to the scenes involving the synthetic, David. In the beginning of the film he has […]
During my teenage years, my friends and I would watch Love and Basketball back to back. The film featured a young Monica (Sanaa Lathan) and Quincy (Omar Epps) as their love for basketball coincided with their love for each other. Monica and Quincy were more […]
There are few environments more inherently dramatic than the courtroom. A hub of dueling moralities, grand posturing, remarkably high stakes, and literal monologuing à la attorney statements, there is very little question as to what makes a courtroom drama so appealing to so many. Now […]
On a cloudless moonlit night two black children run for their lives. One of the children is eleven and the other just turned nine the previous week. They are “So young… so innocent… to know such terror.” Luck is not on their side this particular […]