“You’ve got to rattle your cage door. You’ve got to let them know that you’re in there, and that you want out. Make noise. Cause trouble. You may not win right away, but you’ll sure have a lot more fun.” -Florynce Kennedy Inhale. Exhale. [Long pause] I don’t know about you, but I spent this […]
via When Your Story Isn’t the One that Matters — Fighting to Find Your Purpose
Bonnie Pointer, of the Grammy Award-winning vocal group The Pointer Sisters, has died at the age of 69. In a statement to TMZ, Anita Pointer confirmed her sister’s passing. “It is with great sadness that I have to announce to the fans of The Pointer Sisters that my sister, Bonnie died this morning. Our family […]
via R.I.P. Bonnie Pointer, Founding Member of The Pointer Sisters Dies at 69 — Ten15AM
After the success of airplanes in WWI, pilots, engineers, designers and businessmen considered the possibilities of aircraft in peacetime. A key consideration was distance. By end of WW1 airplanes were reliable and very maneuverable, but they could only fly short distances. However, there were still useful peacetime applications: Air mail, short distant single passenger transportation […]
It is sad to read about the racism suffered by Bryan Burnham, Geroy Simon, and Cyril Iwanegbe, all good football players.
via Letters to The Sun, June 9, 2020: We need to level the playing field — Vancouver Sun
Due to the type of administrative mix-up that always happens in the movie but rarely in real life, a college has assigned female student Alex (Lara Flynn Boyle) to share a dorm room with two males, Eddy (Josh Charles) and Stuart (Stephen Baldwin). Stuart is an outwardly obnoxious jock while Eddy is a sensitive and […]
via Threesome (1994, directed by Andrew Fleming) — Through the Shattered Lens
Pete Davidson plays a man-child that cannot get out of his own way in this irresistible dramedy that cements his status as the latest Saturday Night Live cast member bound for big screen stardom. Judd Apatow’s first feature directing job since 2015’s Trainwreck is one of the best films of his career. A screenplay by […]
Let’s get one thing clear right from the start: Shirley, the movie about acclaimed writer Shirley Jackson, is not a conventional biopic of the reclusive yet incisive author of The Haunting of Hill House and stories like “The Lottery.” The movie is based on a novel by Susan Scarf Merrell, also called Shirley, and depicts […]
Amar Sall shares his Black Storytelling watchlist with BRICKS, featuring films, television shows and documentaries celebrating Black voices.
via A Comprehensive Watchlist of Black Storytelling — BRICKS Magazine
For my first review, I wanted to watch a movie that I had seen before and knew was good, but also one that I feel I may not have fully appreciated the first time around. My first and most recent viewing of this movie was in 2017 and I remember somewhat enjoying it, but many of the exact plot details had since slipped my mind. Nevertheless, considering it is a personal favorite of someone whose movie opinion I regard very highly, I felt it was time to give it another shot. Here is my review for Hell or High Water:
With civil disobedience and protests at an apex the last week after the murder of George Floyd and the killing is several other African-Americans, it is important to think about a time when a southern President who prior to 1957, had opposed Civil; Rights effectively partnered with Martin Luther King Jr. The amount of scholarship […]
via #Blacklivesmatter: LBJ and MLK Jr., Civil Rights passage, reading and viewing — The Florida Squeeze
First Scene Screenplay Festival 