The Reel Critic Roundtable: Jingle Jangle, The Life Ahead and Uncle Frank
This week, the critics talk about Jingle Jangle, The Life Ahead and Uncle Frank. We also discuss many current issue including Alex Trebeck, Waiting To Exhale TV Series and Woke being greenlit for a second season.
Sonia Lowman Talks About Her Documentary Black Boys
Reggie Ponder, The Reel Critic, interviews Sonia Lowman About her new film Black Boys. BLACK BOYS illuminates the spectrum of black male humanity in America. An intimate, inter-generational exploration, BLACK BOYS strives for insight to black identity and opportunity at the nexus of sports, education and criminal justice.
The Reel Critic Roundtable: Black Boys, Kajillionaire, Cuties & Enola Holmes
This week the critic talked Black Boys, Kajillionaire, Cuties & Enola Holmes. But even before we got into the movies we had to discuss Breonna Taylor and the current news of the day. I know, we are film critics and need to shut up and review but that’s where you are wrong – we are human beings first and are not just here to entertain but to engage and enlighten. So check out the episode and let us know your thoughts.
The Reel Critic Roundtable: Antebellum & Alone
This week the critics discuss Antebellum and Alone. Shawn Edwards declares this week a bad week for women and Kathia Woods and Lonita Cook agreed citing these too films as problematic. I chimed in too so check out the show and let us know your thoughts.
The Reel Critic Roundtable: Chadwick Boseman Impact, Tenet & Mulan
The week the critics discuss Tenet and Mulan. But before Kathia Woods, Shawn Edwards, Sharronda Williams and myself talked movies, we were joined by Michele Prettyman Ph.D. (Assistant Professor Mercer University Scholar of Film, Race and Visual CultureMedia Consultant) and Terri Prettyman Bowles (writer, content curator and a co-founder of Daughters of Eve Media) to talk about the loss and the impact of Chadwick Boseman. suffice it to say, while he will be missed he left a footprint that will live forever.
The Reel Critic Roundtable: The Personal Life Of David Copperfield, Words On Bathroom Walls and Social Unrest impact on entertainment
This week the critics talk about two movies, The Personal Life of David Copperfield and Words on Bathroom Walls. And you guessed it, there was no consensus. This discussion was all the way live. Reggie’s critic for a minute, well maybe more than a minute, was about the stress and trauma of this moment of racial awakening. Later, all the critics weigh in on what role critics can play during these very difficult times.
The Reel Critic Roundtable: Unhinged & The 24th
This week the critics (Kathia Woods, Shawn Edwards and Mercendez Springer) talk about Unhinged and The 24th. Academy Award© winner, Russell Crowe, stars in Unhinged, a psychological thriller that explores the fragile balance of a society pushed to the edge, taking something we’ve all experienced – road rage – to an unpredictable and terrifying conclusion. THE 24TH tells the incredibly powerful andtimely true story of the all-black Twenty-Fourth United States Infantry Regiment, and the Houston Riot of 1917.
We also talked about the many Black biopics that are coming out with dueling entities making two Aretha Franklin projects and two Mahalia Jackson projects. The conversation was unhinged, unscripted and uncensored!
