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May
This Batwoman article contains spoilers through Season 2, Episode 14. Batwoman has been going hard on their criticism of the Crows—and law enforcement by proxy—so it is no surprise that the show would Go There. Yet despite the season-long setup for Crows or cops to do something blasé, like shoot an unarmed Black man, the fact that they made me watch an unarmed Black man get shot on my television in this year of our lord is truly a f*cking choice. Is it crack? We spend time in the episode proving that Tavaroff is a racist piece of shit with…
11
Dec
A Dog Called Money is a uniquely intimate journey through the inspiration, writing and recording of a PJ Harvey record. Writer and musician Harvey and award-winning photographer Seamus Murphy, hatched a collaboration. Seeking first-hand experience of the countries she wanted to write about, Harvey accompanied Murphy on some of his worldwide reporting trips, joining him in Afghanistan, Kosovo, and Washington DC. Harvey collected words, Murphy collected images. Back home, the words become poems, songs, then an album, which is recorded in an unprecedented art experiment in Somerset House, London. In a specially constructed room behind one-way glass, the public -…
12
Aug
There have been many films about Marilyn Monroe, one of the most iconic and tragic movie stars of the 20th century. Yet chances are that we’ve never seen one like the upcoming Netflix original production, Blonde. It’s Andrew Dominik’s long-awaited return to moviemaking and stars Ana de Armas as Monroe, the Gentlemen Prefer Blondes star who’s considered one of the defining faces of 1950s American culture. Adapted from Joyce Carol Oates’ award winning fictionalized novel of the same name, Blonde promises to be one of the more internalized and unique biopics in recent memory. And it already has one highly…
11
Jul
Recommended Murdered at the age of 33 by his common-law wife Helen, legendary jazz trumpeter Lee Morgan is the subject of I Called Him Morgan (2016), the second film by Swedish director Kasper Collin. Carefully guiding viewers through the years, months, and days leading to Lee's death on February 19, 1972, I Called Him Morgan is half biopic and half retrospective: combining recent video interviews with Lee's contemporaries and a lengthy 1996 audio interview with Helen (who, eerily enough, died just one month later), it paints a detailed picture of Lee's short but extremely prolific career.The film's commitme...Read the entire…
