Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Actors Tony Revolori, Kiersey Clemons and Shameik Moore in Dope David Moir /sl-art-illo-cap /sl-art-illo-cntr First, let’s get this out of the way. Dope is a good movie. It is enjoyable, watchable and sweet. But it is also so sweet that if it were a drink, it would be a hipster, artisan rum punch drowning in…
Coming-of-age stories are about going through something defining. Movies like The Breakfast Club endure because the experiences they capture, like grappling with identity or awkward sexuality, are meant to be universal, signposts that mark the moments where we quit being kids. Resolution comes as each character — our teenaged avatars — take those first steps…
After her set at a Chicago bar last weekend, comedian Tamale Rocks made a sickening discovery in the women’s toilets. Directly facing the toilet was a full-length mirror (always awkward to get acquainted with your own peeface, but not intrinsically sinister), behind the full-length mirror was a door (sure, fine), and behind the door was…
“Dope” begins with an onscreen definition, which is a known characteristic of satires that ultimately fail in their satiric visions. Usually, these films open with a definition of satire, which they don’t live up to by the closing credits. “Dope” opts instead for Webster’s take on its title, defining it as slang for a stupid…
Photo From left, Tony Revolori, Kiersey Clemons and Shameik Moore in “Dope.” Credit Rachel Morrison/Open Road Films A coming-of-age story that is at once a parody of, and a tribute to, ’90s-vintage ghetto dramas, “Dope” wears its pop-culture obsessions on its sleeve. So does its hero, Malcolm (Shameik Moore), a teenager navigating his senior year…
How do young black men see themselves in America today? This is the formidable question buried under the high-top fades and Cross-Colour jeans of Rick Famiyuwa’s natty new film Dope. It’s the story of Malcolm, a retro-obsessed hip-hop geek with Harvard aspirations navigating senior year in a rough section of Inglewood, California. He and fellow…
Oh my stars, it seems America’s most virginal born-again virgin is with child. Again: I wanted you guys to be the first to know that I am pregnant. Honestly, I’ve been trying my hardest to keep my chin up on this one. At the end of the day there’s nothing I can’t do with God…
Much has been made about the M-rating of the recently released Batman: Arkham Knight, and how far the game is willing to go in terms of characters and moving the actual storyline of this world forward. It’s a final game in many ways, and it plays for keeps. But as long-time Batman fans already know,…
(JDHancock/flickr) If Ariel had normal-sized eyes, we might be less endeared to her—forced to focus more immediately on her disconcerting scaly tail. If Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg were a Disney Princess, as one artist recently rendered her, she’d have no wrinkles, a smirk on her face, and some décolletage. Buzzfeed And…
11 Disney Princesses Whose Eyes Are Literally Bigger Than Their Stomachs Hungry, gals? You must be, because these animated Disney kweens’ eyes are literally bigger than their stomachs. I can’t wait to buy my daughter a waist trainer for her Jasmine Halloween costume!! Tiana Aurora (Sleeping Beauty) Rapunzel Pocahontas Meg…