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Movie Review: Thor Ragnarok

Let’s be honest; after Thor: The Dark World, there was really nowhere to go back up. That ham-fisted depiction of a superhero torn between two worlds held in place by a girl is overdone. If you’re going to do the same story again, you had best do it better, or at least with a modicum […]

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Film: The Jungle Book

The Jungle Book is an exquisitely visual, hopeful movie that made me cry at least thrice. I’m a Disney stan as is, and I am so pleased, in spite of Walt Disney (ha!) and his dubious prejudices, that not only have they managed to make fantastic movies for my childhood, but also for my (pseudo) […]

Film: Beasts of no Nation

Beasts of no Nation is one of the best movies I have watched this year, hands down in my top two of the entire year. No one else has beaten Mad Max just yet and to be honest I don’t know if they can, Star Wars notwithstanding. The movie follows a young boy -Agu – […]

Series: Empire

Empire is the brand new very shiny series to come out of Black America with a powerful mostly black cast. It’s so new there’s only one episode out. Lol. Empire is about a drug dealer turned music mogul, a rich man after his first album helped him break free of poverty. A few problems come […]