Tag: Music
Roxanne Roxanne Lays Bare the Burdens of Black Women
Roxanne Roxanne is a biopic documenting the rise of legendary teenage MC Lolita Shanté Gooden (Chanté Adams) who rose to prominence in the burgeoning rap scene in 1980s New York City as Roxanne Shanté. Shanté‘s foray into stardom…
Read More »Becks Touchingly Delves into the Complicated Side of Love
************************This review contains spoilers**************************** Becks follows a young woman of the same name (Lena Hall) forced to move back to St. Louis with her staunchly Catholic mother Ann (Christine Lahti) after driving from New York to L.A. to…
Read More »Baby Driver is a Breath of Fresh Air
Baby Driver introduces us to prodigious getaway driver Baby (Ansel Elgort) who because of a traumatic past never stops listening to music and doesn’t say much. Because of a past joyride, Baby is stuck working for crime boss…
Read More »The Dreamers in La La Land
“Here’s to the ones who dream Foolish as they may seem” – Emma Stone La La Land entered its opening weekend to much hype and expectations. The film seems headed to a showdown with the equally hyped Moonlight…
Read More »Sing Street Sets a New Standard for the Coming of Age Film
“For our art, Cosmo. You can never do anything by half. Do you understand that?” Sing Street is a story about a high school boy in 1980s Dublin, Ireland named Conor (Ferdia Walsh-Peelo) who decides to start a…
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