Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Detroit native Lawrence Lamont’s first feature film is this Issa Rae produced comedy that feels like it could have been part of the “Insecure” multiverse. Between the shots of Black LA (shoutout Baldwin and Leimert Park), the product placement for Issa Rae’s prosecco and the SQUAD of Black comedy heavyweights who pop up, you can tell this was coded for Black millennials and our Gen Z siblings.
The film features best friends Dreux, played by Emmy award-winning actress Keke Palmer,…
Movies like this are why light skinned Black people catch the type of strays that they do. 😬😬😬😬 A horrible Millenial/Gen X spin on the race movies of a previous generation that has a horrible, rushed ending and a muddled message.
A clever plot, the story of a secret society of magical secondary Black characters - often referred to in movies as the Magical Negro, one’s only service is to aid White protagonist and comfort them - quickly devolves into…