Mini Movie Reviews Archives
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BLACKkKLANSMAN
Tinsel & Tine’s look at A Spike Lee Joint Fans of the Dave Chappelle show, can’t help but think about his hilarious skit involving Clayton Bigsby, the blind KKK leader who didn’t know he was black, when hearing about the premise of Spike Lee’s BlackkKlansman, which tells the true story of a black cop infiltrating the KKK in the 70’s in Colorado, and lives to tell the tale. John David Washington (yes, he’s Denzel’s son) plays Ron Stallworth, a black rookie cop who seeks advancement in an all-white department serving at a time when cops were routinely referred to as ‘pigs’, particularly by black revolutionaries – he finds his first…
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SORRY TO BOTHER YOU
It all sounds reasonable, but Riley's style is to keep dialing up the crazy, notch by notch until you're at a full rolling boil of absurdist, off-beat, comedic Sci-fi soup. The satirical messages relating to society's tendencies to sell out who we really are to succeed, normalize crazy stuff, and feel fine that Amazon (aka "Worry Free") is taking over the world, along with a couple other social observations, makes "Sorry to Bother You' an original ride to say the least.
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Movie Blog Post: RBG aka The Notorious RBG
why, from the beginning of time, are so many white men in power so lousy!?! Why do they get off on subjugation, bigotry and exclusion?...
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Marvel: ANT-MAN and the WASP
by Le Anne Lindsay, Editor Tinsel & Tine Guests on the Popular Podcast THE LAMBcast – ANT-MAN and the WASP After writing a blog for almost a decade, I came to the conclusion that talking about movies is more fun than writing about movies. But also having maintained a blog for all these years makes me know for sure that I would never want to host my own podcast, not unless I had a lot of behind the scenes help, both technically and marketing wise. Thankfully, I get to provide a radio movie segment each week on That’s Show Biz with Chuck Darrow (currently on a 4 week summer…
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A Look at the 11th Annual Philadelphia Independent Film Festival (May 2-5, 2018)
Hatched in 2007 out of the MediaBureau.com film initiative, The Philadelphia Independent Film Festival has been holding its own among the plethora of film festivals we get to enjoy each year in Philly. #PIFF11...














