Movie Review: Rachel Getting Married

I like the band TV on the Radio and Tunde Adebimpe, who is one of the lead singers, dabbles in acting and is featured in Rachel Getting Married directed by Jonathan Demme and starring Anne Hathaway.  When I decided to see the film, I had not committed to writing a full review.  I was going to [...]

ON DVD: I’m Through With White Girls (The Inevitable Undoing of Jay Brooks)

I saw this quirky independent film at the the Atlanta Film Festival about two years ago.  Based on its extras and IMDB profile, it had a pretty significant film festival run and was just recently released on DVD.  The main character Jay Brooks (played by Anthony Montgomery), a black man, lives outside of what could be [...]

Movie Review: Allah Made Me Funny

This comic concert film features the stand-up comedy of three Muslim-American comedians: Azhar Usman (Indian ), Preacher Moss (African-American ) and Mohammed “Mo” Amer (Palestinian).  While not quite on par with other films of its genre such as Raw, Sarah Silverman’s Jesus is Magic, and The Aristocrats, this film is probably [...]