Movie Reviews and Previews Queen & Slim sits between two forms With Queen & Slim director Melina Matsoukas jumps from music videos to feature films, and her background in visual media shows in the style and rhythm of her long-form work. Queen & Slim is strikingly visual and operates almost like a series of vignettes connected by musical interludes. Matsoukas’s By Sarah • Dec 06, 2019 10:11 am
Baby and Bump Obsession Jodie & Joshua’s first red carpet Queen & Slim premiered last night in Hollywood. The film is Melina Matsoukas’s feature film directorial debut, from a script written by Lena Waithe, starring Oscar nominee Daniel Kaluuya and Jodie Turner-Smith in her first lead role – and there’s been Oscar buzz about it for months, building on By Lainey • Nov 15, 2019 09:45 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Queen & Slim, not Bonnie and Clyde A notable absence from this year’s fall festival tour (so far) is Queen & Slim, the feature film debut of “Formation” director Melina Matsoukas. I’m a little surprised Universal, the distributor, isn’t looking to put a little festival polish on this movie. It has as good a By Sarah • Aug 01, 2019 03:05 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Widows To call Widows a leap forward for director Steve McQueen, or to otherwise imply this is some kind of improvement on his already capable and distinct style, is not fair to McQueen or a good assessment of his previous work (Hunger, Shame, 12 Years a Slave). However, there is no By Sarah • Sep 12, 2018 04:43 pm
Met Gala 2018 Black Excellence at the Met Gala after party “I’m rooting for everybody black.” Issa Rae said this at the 2017 Emmy Awards and it’s a sentiment that holds up for me at every awards show, and in life in general, but especially at the Met Gala, I was rooting for everybody black. For those of you By Kathleen • May 09, 2018 11:49 am
Danai Gurira Black Panther: MCU’s best romance Black Panther is a gift that has not stopped giving since February 16th, 2018. I saw it for the seventh time last weekend and it just keeps giving. Every time, I appreciate something else. The last couple times I watched Black Panther, I’ve walked out of the theatre thinking By Kathleen • May 02, 2018 11:11 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Black Panther Era It has arrived. Officially. Black Panther premiered last night and all my dreams for what I hoped the premiere of Black Panther would look like came true. LOOK AT ALL OF THIS BLACK EXCELLENCE. I actually don’t think I ever dreamed this big – that a film about an African By Kathleen • Jan 30, 2018 10:26 am
Award Season Campaigning Oscars getting better Not perfect, but better. The Oscar nominations this morning got it mostly right, recognizing films we expected—The Shape of Water, Three Billboards, Dunkirk, Call Me By Your Name—films we didn’t—Logan and The Big Sick—and films we feared would be overlooked, like Mudbound and Get Out, By Sarah • Jan 23, 2018 11:40 am
Golden Globes 2018 Get Out at the Golden Globes Midway through the Golden Globes last night I texted Duana and Kathleen: where is Jordan Peele? I feel like Daniel Kaluuya needs him. Jordan was there and we all hilariously, at the same time, texted each other the minute he turned up in one of the shots (“There’s Jordan! By Lainey • Jan 08, 2018 05:31 am
Style Will there be tiaras? Three more sleeps until the Golden Globes on Sunday. You know what I just remembered? You know what won’t be happening at the Golden Globes on Sunday? This: That same year, in 2015, on the Avengers: Age Of Ultron press tour, Jeremy Renner was dragged for sex shaming Black By Lainey • Jan 04, 2018 12:51 pm
Jordan Peele Get Out at the Globes – and a giveaway The Golden Globe nominations are out, and Get Out—one of the best movies of the year—only got two nominations: Best Musical or Comedy Motion Picture and Best Actor in a Comedy/Musical for Daniel Kaluuya. Those are not insignificant nominations, but Jordan Peele went 0-0 on directing and By Sarah • Dec 11, 2017 11:50 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Black Panther Cast Gets Out Have you seen Get Out yet? By now, you have no excuse. Sarah called it “OUTSTANDING” in all caps. Do you know how rare it is for Sarah to use all caps when she’s not eviscerating something? I haven’t seen a horror movie in a decade and I By Kathleen • Apr 12, 2017 10:35 am
Samuel L Jackson Samuel L. Jackson takes a seat Last week Samuel L. Jackson stepped in it when talking about Get Out and its star, Daniel Kaluuya, who is British. In an interview with Hot 97 Jackson said, “I tend to wonder what would that movie have been with an American brother who really understands that. […] Daniel grew up By Sarah • Mar 14, 2017 02:29 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Jordan Peele’s outstanding debut film, Get Out Get Out opened with over $33 million this weekend to take top spot at the box office. Written and directed by Jordan Peele, one-half of the comedy duo Key & Peele, Get Out stars Daniel Kaluuya (Sicario) as Chris, a black guy going to meet his white girlfriend’s family By Sarah • Feb 28, 2017 10:48 am
