Thank goodness for Regina King. For decades now, from 1996’s Jerry Maguire (my official introduction), to the Legally Blonde and Miss Congeniality sequels, to TV’s 24 and HBO’s The Leftovers, I’ve appreciated the style and the power with which the actress has refined her craft and blazed her trail. Her work on the American Crime […]
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Attention
You guys – they just want attention. You know who they are: We see these folks acting the fools every single day, and a large mob of ’em recently took over the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C. Oh, for sure, sometimes, we are the asshole – but, fingers crossed, the moment passes you by, […]
Postcard from San Francisco, 11.7.20
The legacy continues, the work is far from done – don’t go thinkin’ it is just ’cause it’s 2021. It is a movement, not a moment. #BlackLivesMatter✊🏽 #TransIsBeautiful💗 #BlackTransLivesMatter🙏🏽 #LoveIsLove❤️ ❌⭕️❌⭕️
Your Zebras, America
Happy New Year. I can see it and yet, I barely believe it: America’s democracy is under siege, by Donald “the Impeached” Trump’s terroristical MAGA Nation, which this morning did as told and took the United States Capitol (like, the heart of Washington, D.C.); at best, to interrupt the certification of the 2020 win of […]
‘Wonder Woman 1984’ x King of Cups
And there on Christmas she was, Gal Gadot’s Wonder Woman, the hero we the pandemic peeps of the year that wasn’t needed, nay, deserved, in a long-awaited blockbuster sequel premiering at oh-so-select theaters across our COVID nation (ay, pero qué pasó, California – we know better than to surge at this stage in the game, […]
The Thing About ‘Tenet’
The thing about Tenet is it’s a palindrome with a twist: You can spell the title of Christopher Nolan’s latest opus the same backward and forward and you can enjoy the movie front to back and back again, too. Tenet’s science fiction of the first rate. Don’t try to understand it, one of the characters […]
‘Greenland’ x King of Cups
Full disclosure: I had dinner “with” Gerard Butler, once upon a 2013 Art Basel Miami Beach soirée hosted by Dom Pérignon and the Swiss luxury watch manufacturer Roger Dubuis. He wore the Excalibur timepiece, in case you were wondering; and we talked about Paul Walker, who had just died in that terrible car accident, and […]
Wandering Hearts
Of all the movies that were, weren’t, still could be, won’t be in 2020, but will be in 2021, I suppose Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland, based on the 2017 non-fiction book Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century by Jessica Bruder, is the one I’m anticipating the most. Zhao is the critical-darling director of The Rider, […]
301K
Good thing the novel coronavirus vaccine has made its way stateside. Today, nine-ish months after humanity and the world went into lockdown on account of the global COVID-19 pandemic, and as the United States of America’s death toll passed 301,000, Sandra Lindsay, a critical care nurse in Queens, N.Y., became the first American to be […]
Looking for Mercy
Gerard Butler will not quit running. The indefatigable Fallen franchise star is headlining the upcoming On Demand title Greenland, a thrilling and dramatic actioner in which his John Garrity, his estranged wife Allison (Deadpool’s Morena Baccarin), and their kid will hit the road on a journey to the world’s largest island, seeking sanctuary from a […]
King of Cups 