‘Shaft’ (2019): The Father-Son Comedy That Cops Out
The 'Shaft' remake fails to capture Blaxpoitation's rebellious spirit.

Debtford is a horror non-fiction experimental short investigating the room that the artist-filmmaker used to rent in Deptford, southeast London. Its bulging walls, creeping cracks, and travelling stains ultimately gestate into an epistemic threshold which its renter-inhabitant cannot avoid crossing.
The 'Shaft' remake fails to capture Blaxpoitation's rebellious spirit.
Lee Daniels’s Billie Holiday biopic The United States vs. Billie Holiday was released on February 26th, 2021, and my immediate reaction to it was one of discomfort.
“And I think to myself….what a wonderful world”. Louis Armstrong sang about this notion via his classic 1967 song, an ode to witnessing elements of our life that should be but some reminders of exactly what that concluding line of each verse indicates. Now we see our contemporary realities and, just being honest, it makes a sentiment like this seem SO overtly far away….perhaps even impossible….to accept or believe could be. It sounds harsh, but again, so much of what is occurring speaks not to beauty, but bedlam.
The trainwreck is hot but tame.
Chickenhare and the Hamster of Darkness explores true identity through exploration.