There is much to admire in Disney’s new film, The Princess and The Frog, but I wasn’t prepared for how curiously self-aware Disney’s cinematic coronation of its first black princess would be.
Archive for the ‘film’ Category
8 Nov
Are You Planning to See Precious?
Will you be seeing the film, Precious? I’m mulling over the reasons for my own reluctance to embrace Lee Daniels’ new movie and its enthusiastic supporters, so I ask this question without judgment as a way to initiate dialogue. Buoyed by the moral validation of Oprah Winfrey and Tyler Perry, Precious will surely have a [...]
9 Mar
Watchmen Baby Love
My take on the film, Watchmen, is best characterized by the feeling I get when my daughter gives me a picture she has colored at school. I’m not expecting a perfect or flawless work of art; I’m just so thrilled that such a work exists and I am without words to evaluate it with anything [...]
12 Dec
Lost & Found: For the Santa in All of Us
A few links, videos, and other online ephemera from our favorite sites this past week: TBoH has discovered Twitter! Honestly, though, beyond posting blog updates and reading what others are doing, I still don’t know how to make this high-tech time-waster useful. (Do you really want to know what I’m eating for breakfast?) If you [...]
13 Sep
Prince Akeem for President
Lately I’ve been wondering how much of my fascination with Senator Barack Obama has been shaped by Eddie Murphy’s 1988 comedy, “Coming to America.”
