SHIMMER Women Athletes Volume 6 (2006)

From the cinematography to the script to the acting, Sorry, Baby is undoubtedly one of the best films of the year.

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.

My review’s title is a nod to Shakespeare and is entirely deliberate. The original movie portrayed the high-end fashion world as a brutal arena of plotting, backstabbing, and betrayal, and most Shakespeare’s plays depend on these plot devices. The Devil Wears Prada 2 uses the same formula, and is, plot-wise, almost identical. Once again, we plunge into the cutthroat world of Runway, where to get and stay at the top, you must let go of your principles and moral sense. The only thing different is that due to the digital era, Runway is not a print magazine anymore, but one that is running online.

When Eddie Palmer is released from prison he returns home and he meets Sam, soon becoming his primary caregiver.

By undermining the appeal and credibility of black characters, the show compromises the very idea of diversity and representation it sets to promote.

It’s fun, it’s energetic, but it’s also understated and vicarial. Zola is a modern black fairytale and future of black movies.