Black Panther Movie Review

All the hype surrounding this movie was enough to give me a little anxiety. I was hoping it that Ryan Coogler (director of Fruitvale Station and Creed) would do his thing because it was the first major budget film with an all-black cast and director that didn’t depict slavery or anything stereotypically black … like [...]

NBA Playoffs: Conference Finals – A Little Preview

Hey, for the third time! So we’re pretty much one round away from Cavs-Warriors III. Both the Cleveland Cavaliers and Golden State Warriors acted like Josh Brolin and treated their respective second round opponents like George Clooney to recreate that one scene from Hail, Caesar! With Golden State and Cleveland’s respective dominance, the lack of competition […]

NBA Playoffs: Second Round – A Little Preview

Hey again! I know that the second round has already started, and you may think that my picks are skewed based on the games that were already played. I’d simply retort with: didn’t the first round teach us to not overreact to the beginning of a series? I mean, the San Antonio Spurs beat down the […]

2017 NBA Playoffs: First Round – A Little Preview

Hey! You made it! You made it to the end of the NBA 2016-17 season! People seem to complain constantly that the NBA regular season is too long and it’s a slog, but I don’t know, feels like yesterday when Anthony Davis reintroduced himself a la Jay-Z with one of the lines of the year […]

Thoughts on Charlie Murphy (1959-2017)

Charlie Murphy, Eddie Murphy's big brother and the storyteller behind the Chappelle’s Show iconic “Charlie Murphy’s True Hollywood Stories”, passed away on Wednesday after battling leukemia. According to TMZ, even Murphy’s family were shocked by the news as they claimed that Murphy appeared to be doing better. I, for one, didn’t even know the man was ill. In a […]