Danielle Brooks

Fantasia Barrino in The Color Purple

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 […]

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Steve Agee, Chukwudi Iwuji, John Cena, Jennifer Holland, Freddie Stroma, and Danielle Brooks in Peacemaker

Peacemaker, what we know so far

Peacemaker episodes 1-3 dropped on HBO Max the premier day, giving this spin off from The Suicide Squad a good beginning. James Gunn is responsible for both series. Both are over the top bonkers. Here’s what we learned in the

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Kylie Liya Page in Social Distance

Review: Social Distance

Social Distance sets episode 1 in April 2020 and ends the series in late May 2020 with graduation and the killing of George Floyd. Even such a tiny slice of pandemic quarantine provided eight powerful and meaningful episodes in this

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Kate Mulgrew, Natasha Lyonne, Selenis Leyva, Yael Stone, Jackie Cruz, and Nick Dillenburg in Orange Is the New Black

Orange is the New Black: Farewell and Goodbye

Orange is the New Black dropped its final season, season 7, on Netflix recently. I, like many others, devoted a good part of a weekend to watching the last ever episodes of this groundbreaking marvel of a television masterpiece roll

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Sophia Mitri Schloss in Sadie

Watch This: Trailer for Sadie

Thirteen year old Sadie obsesses over her father’s deployment and dreams and writes about “violent stuff.” This promising film was written and directed by Megan Griffiths.

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drienne C. Moore, Taylor Schilling, Selenis Leyva and Natasha Lyonne in Orange is the New Black

Six Years of Thoughts on Orange is the New Black

I’ve written about Orange is the New Black since season 1. I wanted to summarize my thoughts on this series, collect the most important posts in one spot, and share the results. This Orange is the New Black summary is my

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Danielle Brooks in Orange is the New Black

Orange is the New Black, season 6

Orange is the New Black, season 6, starts after the riot of season 5. The way the government and prison authorities dealt with it was the focus of the season. Some of our favorite characters made it into Litchfield Max,

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Selenis Leyva in Orange is the New Black

Orange is the New Black Season 5: Thumbs Up vs. Thumbs Down

Orange is the New Black season 5 was both an emotional thrill ride and a disappointment. I want to discuss my likes and dislikes about the latest season. This is not a detailed review. There might be a few spoilers

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