“No one man should have all that power The clock’s ticking’, I just count the hours Stop tripping’, I’m tripping’ off the power (21st century schizoid man)” Kanye West, POWER What do you think your superpower is? How would it… Read More ›
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AAFCA Roundtable Series: a chat with THE OLD GUARD director Gina Prince-Bythewood
“But at its core, the fact that I got to put two badass women on screen was everything. The script came to me at a time when I had been looking to move into a bigger sandbox and it ended… Read More ›
AAFCA Roundtable Series: a chat with author and life coach Nina Lorez Collins
“Aging has a wonderful beauty and we should have respect for that.” Eartha Kitt It was a great pleasure to join the AAFCA family and chat with Nina Lorez Collins, writer, author of the popular novel What Would Virginia Woolf… Read More ›
AAFCA Roundtable Series: a chat with CENTRAL PARK and HAMILTON stars Daveed Diggs and Leslie Odom Jr.
A couple of weeks back the AAFCA family had a chance to chat with two phenomenal talents – Tony and Grammy award-winner Leslie Odom, Jr. (Harriet, Murder on the Orient Expess) and Tony, Grammy and Lucille Lortell award-winner Daveed Diggs… Read More ›
MMT Giveaway and Twitter Watch Party for THE HIGH NOTE
Happy Tuesday MMT Fam! I am very excited to post this giveaway for THE HIGH NOTE, which is one of my top film recommendations of 2020. If you didn’t get a chance to read my review from May, click here… Read More ›
AAFACA Roundtable Series: a chat with GREENLEAF’S Lynn Whitfield and Keith David
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 ›
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 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 ›
