film
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Wendy Williams: The Movie
Wendy Williams is a talk show host who got her start in radio. On The Wendy Williams Show, her entire brand was celebrity gossip. Recently, Williams has been struggling with a conservatorship that was placed on her for supposed dementia. Williams is mostly known for her controversial opinions on famous people. That said, I watched… Read more
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Beyond the Lights by Gina Prince Bythewood
I almost didn’t post a review for this movie after watching it. I wasn’t sure how to address certain criticisms I had of the film without coming off as a pretentious white girl. Beyond the Lights is a 2014 film directed and written by Gina Prince Bythewood. It stars Gugu Mbatha-Raw as popstar Noni, and… Read more
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Queen & Slim directed by Melina Matsoukas
Queen & Slim is a 2019 film by director Melina Matsoukas. It stars Daniel Kaluuya and Jodie Turner Smith as the titular characters. We’re first introduced to the two on a date in a diner, where we learn that Queen is a defense attorney who had a client that had his life taken on death… Read more
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Anthony Bourdain
There’s a movie coming out called Tony about Anthony Bourdain. Those of us millennial’s have a reverence for Bourdain because we grew up watching him on television. While news anchors everywhere demonized people internationally, Bourdain took us into their world and taught us to have empathy for them. He was the kind of guy you… Read more
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Thoughts on the Oscars
Last night, Michael B. Jordan celebrated his Oscars win at In-N-Out, which is the most California kid thing he could have done. It made me happy, because recently, it seems like Hollywood is particularly unattainable. Every time you read about an actor, it turns out they’re a nepobaby, related to someone with money or someone… Read more
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Ouija Movies
I watched both of the Ouija horror movies. Ouija, the first one, and Ouija: Origin of Evil. I watched them out of context which you definitely can do. Ouija: Origin of Evil follows a family of fake spiritualists, the Zander family, Alice, Doris, and Lina. When Alice gets an Ouija board to help their act,… Read more
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Working on a script
I’ve fiddled with script writing before, but I never fully embraced it. I always thought I didn’t know enough. But I’m in my thirties and decided I wanted to embrace what I actually wanted to do: be a screenwriter. So, I’m currently getting my English degree through Southern New Hampshire University. I am going to… Read more
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Love and Deepspace: Improvised Flow
I didn’t expect that I’d be getting into video games in my thirties. However, with everything being a subscription now, video games seem to be the one form of entertainment you don’t have to pay for (unless you want to). Since May, I’ve been obsessed with Love and Deepspace. It’s made by the Chinese company,… Read more