by Ryan Silberstein, Managing Editor, Red Herring
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever is a grief-forged geopolitical thriller that centers its characters’ emotional states.
by Victoria Potenza, Staff Writer
If you are looking for films to watch during Black History Month many of the films listed here are a great way to get started.
Our world in 2018 may be tumbling blindly into a black hole of despair, but luckily 2018 movie-world has been pretty dang cool. MJ crew and contribs gave us their top film picks (so far) and we ranked 'em up all pretty for you. Check out the list below!
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by Jaime Davis, The Fixer
Once upon a time, a young boy in the faraway land of Oakland walked into his local comic book shop. He'd already devoured all the typical superhero stuff, white men in tight bodysuits saving planets, traveling to exotic worlds in other dimensions, facing civilization's extinction over and over, saving it time after time. He absorbed these stories, believing in his own version of fairy tales. Yet, this boy wanted something different. He wanted to see titular heroes, not just folks on the fringes, who looked like him, who were black. One day he mustered up the courage to ask the shop employee if such a title existed. He was handed an issue of Black Panther.
Read Moreby Hunter Bush
Hello all, and welcome to Everything Old is New Again, my new and improved regular column on Moviejawn dot com (the site you are currently reading)! As Jerry Seinfeld once wondered aloud (about Tide detergent no less) "How can something be both New AND Improved?" Well, I can't speak about Tide, but as far as this column goes, I can actually explain.
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