In the past few years, the Film Independent Spirit Awards have come closer and closer to The Academy, taste-wise. For a while, it seemed like they were becoming another station of the cross on the ...

Happy Birthday, Anne Marie! I love old movies, but both the overt and subtle racism shown by the filmmakers is so hurtful in general and to the enjoyment of the movies. I remember the last time I saw ...

Beloved, to some extent, suffered from the reaction to Spielberg and The Color Purple. As Danny Glover himself once said in the early 90s, "The Color Purple is a good film, not a great one." Some of ...