During the summers of my childhood when my parents would work I'd go to an older woman's house where I'd make friends with all the other kids dropped off there. It was great: we'd mess around and watch tv in the morning still half-asleep from the car-ride over before doing math problems right before lunch, then play outside in her garden and back yard before heading inside to play her college son's SNES. Every summer day for a while was…

Getting all the disclaimers out of the way, Pulp Fiction is honestly an incredible film that I would say deserves its spot up in the film canon for being as groundbreaking and influential as it has, a work that builds upon what Tarantino's debut Reservoir Dogs did except with a greater budget and a greater ambition and, in my opinion (which you shouldn't take seriously), would continue to be the trend in his later films.

In a lot of ways…

Oh god, where to even start?

Okay, so Possessor is a very flawed film that's absolutely packed with ideas which piggyback what figures like Cronenberg Sr. have exhibited while also applying them to the state of the world as it is now. To be completely honest, Brandon Cronenberg isn't always successful at sticking the landing and sometimes his themes can get lost in the spectacle; but the way he tackles an onslaught of modern dilemmas combined with his penchant for…

Blackface, black talk, black hair and black skin. Black music and black stars and black food and black culture. Black swagger and black incarceration. Black lives. Black deaths. You can't take one without taking it all, and to think you can only makes you part of the problem.

"You've been had. You've been took."

Bamboozled, a spiteful, hateful, and rightful satire from Spike Lee, except what he satirizes almost seems mild compared to the landscape we're in twenty years later.…