Not knowing how much control Ryan Coogler would get to make the kind of movie that he’s capable of making had me worried about how Black Panther would turn out. The guy is a great young filmmaker with loads of ability, but Marvel has always controlled a great deal of the movies that have come out. This made me unable …

Even before actually watching it, I think it’s safe to believe that everyone knows how Star Wars: Rogue One will be ending. Under these circumstance, the journey becomes even more vital as it needs to produce the kind of overall value that makes a conclusion that’s not all that captivating or surprising excusable. If that was the goal here, many …

Sci-fi has developed into something that can be categorized fairly easily these days. After generations tuning in to see the plethora of adventures in space fighting against aliens and sometimes humans, we tend to know what to expect from these film. I guess that’s where Arrival differentiates from the usual. It’s a sci-fi picture, but it’s certainly not conventional. Arrival …

It’s expected that a sports movie about boxing is going to have some violent sequences that actual boxing doesn’t have. For someone such as myself, you just hope that these films don’t become too over the top with it all. With Southpaw, this is one feature that I worried about, but I also went into it thinking that we could …

When it comes to Black film, there appears to be less and less variety with each passing generation. I’m always hoping that we’re going to get to that point, but it clearly isn’t close to happening. On the surface, Dope looked to be a film that could either head in the same direction as all the others or bring us …