By TIM ESTILOZ In the delightfully dark and subversive new film FATMAN, Mel Gibson gives us a thoroughly different kind of holiday Santa Claus tailor made for these cynical and … Read More “FATMAN: A NEW KIND OF SANTA CLAUS IS COMIN’ TO TOWN”

By TIM ESTILOZ In the delightfully dark and subversive new film FATMAN, Mel Gibson gives us a thoroughly different kind of holiday Santa Claus tailor made for these cynical and … Read More “FATMAN: A NEW KIND OF SANTA CLAUS IS COMIN’ TO TOWN”
By Isha Muhammad Veteran performer and writer Radha Blank’s feature directorial debut, The Forty-Year-Old Version, produced by Lena Waithe, is now on Netflix. Blank—a native New Yorker, known for her … Read More “The Forty-Year-Old Version Review: Come In 40. Have a Seat.”
by TIM ESTILOZ John Leguizamo’s latest film “Critical Thinking” is the kind of purposeful uplifting film about a group of underprivileged underdog school kids striving to be something better; that … Read More “CRITICAL THINKING: GAME FOR THE GAME”
by TIM ESTILOZ As beloved as the original 1998 Disney animated film “Mulan” might be in your more youthful memory and recollection; you should prepare yourself that the new … Read More “”MULAN” IS A DELIGHTFUL REIMAGINED REVELATION”
In a year where the Black Americans are crying out for racial justice and reform in a fashion and in numbers unprecedented since the peak of the 1960’s Civil Rights … Read More “CHADWICK BOSEMAN REMEMBERANCE – Written by TIM ESTILOZ”
By Ronda Racha Penrice For everyone who didn’t get to see Hamilton with its original cast on Broadway, it is now available on Disney+. Before the celebrated musical hit the … Read More “Hamilton Stars Renée Elise Goldsberry and Okeiriete “Oak” Onaowadan Dropped Into The AAFCA Roundtable”
By Ronda Racha Penrice Fort Worth, Texas native Channing Godfrey Peoples’ female-centered film, Miss Juneteenth, is making an impression, receiving high praise from both critics and audiences. Named in homage … Read More “Filmmaker Channing Godfrey Peoples Drops Into the AAFCA Virtual Roundtable To Discuss Her Debut Film, Miss Juneteenth”
By Ronda Racha Penrice Over the last decade, civil rights statesman and longtime Georgia congressman, John Lewis, has started getting his due. And the latest wave of love, awe and … Read More “John Lewis: Good Trouble with Dawn Porter and Erika Alexander”
By Ronda Racha Penrice Anyone who catches Netflix’s Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt can’t miss the delightful brilliance that is Tituss Burgess. The Athens, Georgia native dropped by the AAFCA Virtual Roundtable … Read More “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt Breakout Star Tituss Burgess Opened Up About His Many Projects, Including the Aretha Franklin Biopic, Respect, with the AAFCA Virtual Roundtable”
By Ronda Racha Penrice Since the beginning of its five seasons, OWN’s hit series, Greenleaf, has kept viewers tuned in. From Grace (Merle Dandridge) fighting to expose her pedophile uncle … Read More “Keith David and Lynn Whitfield Speak on the Legacy of Their OWN Hit Series, Greenleaf”