Life is Just War
This was a great film that resonated with many who grew up in a broken home along with living in the projects simply attempting to survive and make it out the hood. Initially, a troubled youth, it was resounding watching Diana learn to redirect her harbored hurt and misguided anger, stopping the punching in hallways and saving them for the ring. Her character was the perfect example of the power of goals, habit and the attention…

I Owe Him My Life

After watching this movie, I was surprised to find out that it was a crime drama, and that the word comedy was not found in its genre. Considering that the film had the word Samurai, I expected more action and some hand-to-hand combat, which there was none. The film was slow and dragged on longer than necessary. Although Forest Whitaker is maintained character, Ghost Dog’s mission to kill or be killed was lackluster. It was…

The Beginning was the Ending

This filmed allowed me to accompany the life of an unsuccessful independent couch-surfing, hitchhiking, broke musician. While at times I felt bad for Llewyn as we experienced his days of unfortunate events. It seemed that he was essentially in the reaping season of all the bad he had sown. We literally experienced several days of his misfortune beginning with waking up on the professor’s couch and letting the cat out of the bag, I mean…

A Painful Reality

While I’m still trying to determine what I just watched, I’d maybe classify this film as an attempted love story. I was more stricken by how culturally white this movie was. Although I’m not some woke activist pushing an everyone is racist narrative, I couldn’t help but notice the lack of diversity. In the entire movie, only one black person had a small speaking line and all the others were extras. While this recognizes how far we've…