Resourceful, talented, intelligent, strong and super cute, Taraji P Henson makes you believe the American Dream is actually achievable. Around the Way Girl: A Memoir: Taraji P. Henson is full of interesting anecdotes about working in and breaking through a system that’s working against you.
Dan & Carlo recap their participation in the CHUD Buddies Challenge, discussing films such as American Anthem (1986), Parole Violators (1994), Lady Terminator (1989), as well as some questionable breakfast practices.
Guest contributor Russell discusses the recent animated film trend of directly addressing toxic masculinity. Between how The LEGO Movie 2, LEGO Batman and Ralph Breaks The Internet tackles the topic, he wishes more movies like these had been around when he was a kid.
Jenna and Carlo go on a chronological foray into Jerry Lewis’ cartoon-like films, starting with Frank Tashlin’s Artists & Models and The Geisha Boy, to Lewis’ own The Nutty Professor. They like it, they like it!
We’re two years old and we’re learning how to run, talk and be more social. We’re also throwing tantrums, so click the damn link already!!
Bored by the Oscars? In this episode of Notes From the Back Row, Jenna, Veronica and Carlo make up their own awards show and categories in order to award the movies that mattered.
Just in time for Valentine’s Day, it’s a double feature of Le Notti Bianche and The Science of Sleep–two films that can offer some therapeutic soul deflation to counteract the pressures of the day.
Carlo is here, in living color, with a brand new video essay on Shaw Brothers’ The Vengeful Beauty (1978), a proto-girls with guns movie.
In the latest episode of Notes From the Back Row, Dan and Carlo discuss some older, lesser-known hidden-gems they watched for the first time last year.
Contrary to the somewhat giddy title, this is not a happy double feature. Both Burning and The Vanishing center around male protagonists trying to find a woman who has mysteriously disappeared.
