On ‘Savages’ and ‘End of Watch’

Photo Credit: The New York Times THE NARCO-WARS of today have begun to see the big screen. Oliver Stone’s recent release Savages sets itself inside the designer dope game, where special strains Continue reading →

On ‘The Wire,’ Season 1

DOING THIS six years late, particularly after these recent remarks*, reminds me (somewhat) of, how as a condition of certain behavioral treatments and recovery from addiction, people attempt to rectify Continue reading →

On ‘Chiefs’

I’VE been developing a perhaps misguided but devout belief that basketball’s culture — its general milieu — is the most sociologically observant, tolerant (though taken with a grain of salt, Continue reading →

The First Public Embroglio of Allen Iverson

Photo Credit: Daily Press AT least half of the (listed): 6’0, 165 pound, shooting guard, now-prematurely-retried-for-reasons-of-pride, Allen Iverson’s legacy; is wrapped in an everlasting bifurcating air of controversy. It is Continue reading →

On Soderberg and ‘The Informant!’

I FINALLY saw one of 2009′s sleepers, The Informant!, and I realized once again, how much I love a Steven Soderberg flick. Why? Because Soderberg seems to never be too divorced Continue reading →

On ‘In Between Days’

IN all the “model-minority” code speak that seems to denigrate all “others,” while simultaneously backhandedly complimenting Asians, that seems to go on in the less nuanced parts of North American Continue reading →

‘Body of Lies,’ Review

IT was an adaptation of the eponymous Body of Lies: A Novel, the spy-thrilleron Middle East espionage by The Washington Post columnist David Ignatiuas and written by William Monahan, the Continue reading →

Madlib and Kweli’s ‘Liberation’

Editor’s Note: I wrote a review for print (a while back) about a free release album by vanguard label Stones Throw Records that teamed the forces of the eccentric West Continue reading →