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Review: ANITA (Anita HIll Documentary)
When I was a student at Howard University, the talk on campus was about this young, pretty woman who seemed to be derailing the confirmation of what would become the…
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Little White Lie is a Glimpse Into a Life of Passing
Little White Lie was particularly fascinating for me because like Lacey there are some members of my family that suffered the same fate she did. Â It was covered up for…
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Review: Beyond The Lights
In honor of the 2015 BET Awards, where dozens of artists set out to prove every year how viable their music and images are to their thousands of fans… In…
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Review: Grace of Monaco
When people dream of marrying royalty, they rarely comprehend what that really means. All the while, adding a culture that is one million miles away from everything you know. Grace…
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Review: What Happened, Miss Simone?
One of the hot documentary tix for Sundance 2015 was for What Happened, Miss Simone? She was African Royalty. Â How does royalty still stomp around in the mud and walk…
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Review: Love and Mercy
This is what we do know…Brian Wilson, his brothers, Dennis, Carl and cousin Mike Love revolutionized the 60’s rock scene with their distinct vocal harmonies and lyrics as The…
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2015 AFI DOCS FILM FESTIVAL: Drunk, Stoned Brillant Dead: The Story of The National Lampoon
When I was a kid, I associated the National Lampoon with the magazine cover of the redhead kid with freckles and the gap between his teeth and the movie Animal…
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Festivals – Festivals – Festivals
I’ve been off the grid for a minute…but now I’m baaaccckkkk!!! So…you ask…Diva…where have you been? Well…after my triumphant return from Sundance at the beginning of this year, I made…
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Coming Attractions: Week of June 19th
Opening This Week – June 19 Inside Out (2015) 94 min – Animation | Comedy | Drama | Family After young Riley is uprooted from her Midwest life and moved…
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2015 AFI DOCS FESTIVAL: Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution
THE BLACK PANTHERS: Â Vanguard of the Revolution I don’t know about you, but I wholeheartedly associated the The Black Panther Party with varying images of Huey P. Newton from eh…