Chris Utley

Joker: Folie a Deux – Phillips shows love to the Clown Prince of Crime

Chris UtleyDec 11, 2024

In what will be looked upon as one of the most epic modern fails in cinematic history, the sequel to a major Academy Award winning, billion dollar-grossing film made a major face plant at the weekend box office. Joker: Folie à Deux grossed $40M in its opening weekend,...

Not-So-Random Thoughts after 2 Screenings of BLACK PANTHER: WAKANDA FOREVER

Chris UtleyNov 14, 2022

EPIC SPOILERS IN THIS COMMENTARY. DO NOT READ IF YOU HAVEN?T SEEN THE FILM They wrote his death into the story! Not a casual mention. Or a start with the all white funeral scene and tribute. Ryan Coogler added T?Challa/Chadwick?s Into. The. Movie - specifically...

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Honk for Jesus, Save Your Soul: Reality and Receipts

Chris UtleyNov 7, 2022

?Honk For Jesus, Save Your Soul? is a 1 hour 43 minute movie. It took my wife and I 2 hours plus to watch it. Because we kept pausing. And screaming. And yelling at the TV. And laughing uncontrollably. And cringing. And struggling to keep from crying. And feeling...

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Don’t Worry, Darling: Haunted by Toxic Nostalgia (Spoilers)

Chris UtleySep 29, 2022

Within certain sectors of American Christianity - particularly those on the Nationalism side of the fence - is a huge enamoring of 1950?s - mid 1960?s culture. In their minds, those suburban Leave It To Beaver days was America at its most perfect. Perfectly manicured...

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Regarding We Need to Talk About Cosby

Chris UtleySep 21, 2022

I was just trying to get to Thursday nights. Fall 1985. New to California. A week into 7th grade at a rough and hardcore inner city middle school, my dad was killed by his brother. Take that insurmountable pain and grief and add to that being a Black nerd knee...

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Part of Our World: Black Girl Joy & The Little Mermaid

Chris UtleySep 17, 2022

Of all the commentary I?ve seen from the reaction to The Little Mermaid teaser trailer - particularly the videos of Black girls enraptured in pure joy while watching the trailer - my friend Joe said something incredibly profound that is 100% correct: ?Let them have...

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Judas & the Black Messiah: “I Want to Live”

Chris UtleyApr 30, 2021

The film has been on HBO Max for about a month now. I knew watching it was gonna require courage, as historical dramas about Black pain and suffering only serve to make me angry. So, I avoided it as long as I could until I finally sat down to watch on the first...

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THE FISHING HOLE: Oscars 2019

Chris UtleyFeb 24, 2019

Welp, the name of the game here at ScreenFish is MOVIES.? So the team embarked on their annual pre-Oscar chat where they discussed who WILL win and who SHOULD win on Hollywood's biggest night! Chris U: Alrighty!?Pre-Oscar Fishing Hole Time! Who WILL win? Who SHOULD...

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BlacKkKlansman: America?s Original Sin

Chris UtleyAug 11, 2018

?Oh goody! ?Here?s comes that Black racist troublemaker Spike Lee with yet another movie about how White people are EVIL, Black people are victims and all that jazz. ?We, as Americans, are so sick and tired of Black folks constantly tossing these issues in our faces...

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