The very first single from Destiny's Child was "No, No, No." Soon after its release, the single jumped to the top of the charts and went platinum, introducing to the world the group that would soon claim The Top Selling Female Group title. Destiny's Child's sophomore album, The Writing's On The Wall, has sold over six million copies in the U.S. alone and yielded four #1 singles. One after another "Bills, Bills, Bills," "Bug a Boo," "Say My Name" and "Jumpin, Jumpin" topped the singles charts and became the hottest jams in the clubs and the streets.
"Warrior" is a Bruce Lee written and inspired story that follows a diverse cast of Chinese American characters and does a terrific job of setting the story in 1878 San Francisco - all without pulling their punches with the systemic racism, discrimination, and struggle for power that old and young immigrants that crossed the country at that time had to go through.
One of THE most frustrating trends in the mainstream film industry over the last several decades has been the onset of comedy efforts that seem SO focused on being crude and/or gross-out in all ways possible. That, at least for me, makes them no longer funny.
Stranger Things season 4 ups the ante to the max! The show’s scope has been expanding for the past three seasons, and boy do they give us a spectacle to behold. As much as I love spectacle, this season occasionally buckles under the weight of its own ambition.
How do zombie films shine new light in the post-Covid and post-Brexit era?
Facing the world with our fair share of uncertainties and/or apprehensions, many of which, sadly, may be well-founded, is nothing to sneeze at. Influenced and buffeted by the constant barrage of social media, fake news, and general upheaval present in our contemporary reality, what IS real and what's not becomes a blur.
