Everything has an expiration date. A line from the final scene in last year’s season four finale of the hit TV show GREENLEAF. The line is spoken to Grace Greenleaf (Merle Dandridge), a character we’ve watched go from the prodigal… Read More ›
Interviews
MMT Review of DA 5 BLOODS
“We Bloods won’t let nobody use our rage against us. We control our rage.” Norman, DA 5 BLOODS I was 15-years-old when director Spike Lee’s “Do The Right Thing” came out in the summer of ’89. It was the first… Read More ›
AAFCA Roundtable Series: a chat with THE LOVE BIRDS executive producer/actress ISSA RAE
“In reading (the script), I was cracking up. The relationship dynamics and the idea of this couple on the brink of a breakup having to rely on one another to solve a murder was hilarious to me.” Issa Rae And… Read More ›
AAFCA Roundtable Series: a chat with ALL DAY AND A NIGHT writer/director Joe Robert Cole and stars Ashton Sanders & Jeffrey Wright
“Slavery taught Black people to survive, but not how to live. And that’s what we pass on to each other.” Part of a quote spoken by the lead character in A DAY AND A NIGHT, the new crime drama that… Read More ›
AAFCA Roundtable Series: a chat with HOLLYWOOD executive producer Janet Mock
“What if you could rewrite the story?” is the tagline on the one-sheet for Netflix’s latest series HOLLYWOOD, released today, May 1. A fantastical, revisionist telling of a post-World War II, 1940’s Hollywood industry and those who are trying to… Read More ›
AAFCA Roundtable Series: a chat with Dondre Whitfield
Those of us not ashamed to age ourselves will remember Dondre Whitfield as Vanessa Huxtable’s teenage love interest, Robert, from “The Cosby Show.” And more recently, he was Charlie Bordelon’s boo, Remy Newell, on the OWN hit show “Queen Sugar.”… Read More ›
AAFCA Roundtable Series: a chat with Aunjanue Ellis, Christine Swanson and Tracy Byrd
Happy Sunday MMT Family! I’ve been sharing information on social media about the new roundtable series from the African American Film Critics Association, of which I’ve been a new member since earlier this year, and decided it was best I… Read More ›
MMT Quick Chat with actor/writer/producer Joseph Sikora
Last Sunday night, Chicago native Joseph Sikora entertained a packed house, who had just viewed an early screening of Episode 612 from the hit show POWER, with a Q & A at the AMC Cherry Hill Loews – moderated by… Read More ›
MMT Quick Review of HARRIET and chat with writer/director Kasi Lemmons
The most famous conductor of the Underground Railroad, responsible for the freedom of hundreds (arguably thousands) of slaves and well-known by her code name Moses, Harriet Tubman is finally the subject of a feature film in HARRIET, which opened in… Read More ›
MMT QUICK CHAT with ‘RENT’ actor Shafiq Hicks
Twenty-three years ago, a new rock musical opened on Broadway that changed the landscape and taught fans that love is the greatest measurement of time. And now the Tony award and Pulitzer prize-winning RENT is celebrating its 20th performance tour… Read More ›
