Disney knows how to do inspirational stories. The latest is Queen of Katwe about a Ugandan chess prodigy who finds a way out of the slums of Kampala through the dedication of a man who reached out to impoverished children by teaching them the gam
In defense of my Best Picture choice LA LA LAND… First of all, as a Black man, some folks may be SHOCKED ? that my choice is neither?Moonlight?nor Hidden Figures?nor Fences (my STRONG #2 choice for the big prize). ? You shouldn’t be shocked. ?I’m a film lover first. ? Through and through. ?I study…
a while back (on another site), i wrote about how art begets art?- in that case how love for the game?Bloodborne led to a renewed dip into Lovecraft several whiles back (on a currently dead?blog), i wrote about how faves lead to proselytizing – how when we love something (in that case,?Bloodborne’s? forebear,?Dark Souls), we…
Tertullian, a very early Christian writer noted that ?the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.? There have been times when religious persecution has been extreme. In some places it still is.
some say celebs like Streep should keep their political rants off camera?when at a purportedly non-political party, such as the?Golden Globes meh. i didn’t mind her speaking her mind. Trumpsters, i suppose, (and he, himself, if Twitter matters) are troubled by?her oh-so-subtle-and-clever naming-without-naming takedown of the prez elect nah. seemed accurate to me. she also…
An Editorial by Christine Ivy Rogue One was great. My critique ? as I sat there, moved by the story and impressed with many great strides this movie made socially ? was with how violent it was. It wasn?t gory, it wasn?t graphic, but a lot of people died (no Bothans). It was about David…
2016 retrospectives understandably multiply at the moment, as does the sentiment that 2016 sucked, on the whole in general, esp in terms of what memes get play on Facebook, that’s probably accurate many are pointing, still, with dystopian, apocalyptic fervor, at the ascension of the one they call Trump fair enough and agreed (but read…
As I go over the films of this last year, these are the ones that rise above the others for me. I usually pick twelve films because I like the alliteration of Darrel?s Dozen.
So now that you?ve seen Rogue One (maybe even several times by now), you are probably one of the overwhelming majority who left the theatre filled?with pure joy and excitement. There are?so many great aspects of the film that it can easily fill conversations for days. (It certainly has for us here at ScreenFish!) So,…
Lately, remakes are a dime a dozen. You can see ‘reboots’ of?True Grit and?Terminator, you can watch small screen versions of?Lethal Weapon,?Poltergeist,?Frequency, and?MacGyver.?And now, Yul Brynner’s classic, itself a remake of?Seven Samurai, received the Antoine Fuqua-ized version, complete with Denzel Washington and enough racial diversity to make?The Fast & The Furious?franchise jealous. But lost in…
