Black Panther is breaking records, and setting standards for the messages superhero films can share while still being popcorn entertainment. In short, Black Panther has taken Marvel storytelling to another level. If you haven’t seen it yet, you owe it to yourself to watch T’Challa’s story unfold on the big screen. If you have, I…
Miguel Rivera wants to be someone or more specifically, Miguel wants to be a musician like the great?Ernesto de la Cruz. But his great-great grandfather abandoned his family, specifically Miguel’s grandmother, Coco, and the family has always blamed this betrayal on his musical side, the side of whimsy, creativity, and care-lessness. Because of his abandonment,…
It is interesting that while many know who Karl Marx was, they may not really know his ideas, only how they were co-opted by various despots who saw in his writings the way to grab power. By focusing on Marx?s as a young man, the film is able to show us how the inequality of that time helped to form his ideas.
SPOILERS FROM THE FILM WILL BE DISCUSSED AND DISSECTED. ?DO NOT READ UNLESS YOU HAVE SEEN THE FILM My former Grambling State University Theatre Department classmate turned prolific R&B artist Erykah Badu has a song on one of her albums called ?Master Teacher.? ?The hook goes, ?What if there were no N*****s, only Master Teachers?…
In the traditional Biblical story, Mary and Joseph travel to Bethlehem, the city of Joseph’s ancestry, for the census. Mary is nine months pregnant, and when they are unable to find a place to stay, they welcome their child into the world in a stable or barn. That child is Jesus, God’s son, and the…
Richard J. Flaherty was a Special Forces Green Beret Captain and was awarded the Silver Star, two Bronze Stars, and two Purple Hearts for his actions in Vietnam. But when Miami police officer David Yuzuk meets Flaherty, he’s in his fifties and living alone as a homeless person. Over the next fifteen years, they would…
he Millionaire?s Unit, a documentary by Darroch Greer and Ron King, is a return to celebrating the virtues of a group of young, affluent American college students who understood that their privilege required responsibility, and became some of the first American aviators in the war.
Ten years ago, R.J. Palacio and her toddler son encountered a little girl with a cranial facial difference. The author asked herself what it was like for the little girl to encounter a world that stopped and stared, that couldn’t imagine how amazing she was because they were so focused on the way her face…
From 2001 to 2004, Simon Baker (The Mentalist) starred in The Guardian, as a corporate lawyer convicted of drug abuse who finds himself assigned to the Legal Services office of Pittsburgh. He’s cutthroat and thorough as a businessman, but when he finds himself face-to-face with minors who can’t speak for themselves, he discovers a new…
In Hedgehogs, a brash young hedgehog named Bobby (Anthony Padilla) loses his memory of who he is and what he is, makes friends with a bird named Hubert (Jon Heder), and battles a human (Chevy Chase) intent on eradicating animals. Originally in Chinese, the film is directed by?Jianming Huang, and arrives now on DVD via…
