Tag: Colman Domingo

  • The Four Seasons, a classic remade for modern marriages

    The Four Seasons, a classic remade for modern marriages

    The Four Seasons remakes the 1981 classic by Alan Alda into a modernized TV series created by Tina Fey and Lang Fisher. It stays close to the original thematically as it deals with three couples and their marriages through four vacations in four seasons of the year.

  • Drive-Away Dolls: totally inappropriate

    Drive-Away Dolls: totally inappropriate

    Drive-Away Dolls is a raunchy, ridiculous road trip movie from director Ethan Coen. The name Coen doesn’t always inspire me to want to watch something, but this pulpy masterpiece features women in the lead roles so I felt compelled to take a look.

  • The Color Purple musical review

    The Color Purple musical review

    I know The Color Purple is meant to liberate Black women, but I’ve always loved it. I’ve read the book by Alice Walker multiple times, I’ve seen the original movie multiple times. What I had not done was see the Broadway musical version of the story or learn the music from that show. This film…

  • Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom Hits All the Right Notes

    Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom Hits All the Right Notes

    Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom tells the story of one afternoon in a Chicago recording studio in 1927. Two white men were determined to record 4 songs by Ma Rainey and her band. They intended to make big money from the records. It’s streaming on Netflix.

  • Review: First Match

    Review: First Match

    First Match is a raw and beautiful coming of age story. Elvire Emanuelle stars as a teenager in foster care who joins her high school wrestling team to get the attention of her dad.

  • The Old Ain’t Dead Top 10 of 2015

    The Old Ain’t Dead Top 10 of 2015

    Old Ain’t Dead just me, watching whatever looks good. To me. I don’t watch everything. I don’t have a “best of 2015” list because I don’t have a clue as to what most of 2015 had to offer, much less what the best of all that would be. Yet here we are, at the end…