‘Death to 2020’: TV Review
‘Death to 2020’: TV Review ‘Black Mirror’ vets Charlie Brooker and Annabel Jones take a mockumentary look at the horrors of the past year in ‘Death to 2020,’ featuring stars like Samuel L. Jackson, Hugh Grant, Lisa Kudrow, Leslie Jones and Cristin Milioti. If you’ve spent much time suffering through the news, chuckling ruefully through […]
Jesse Collins becomes the first Black producer of the Super Bowl halftime show
Finally, Jesse Collins is getting the spotlight he’s worked so hard for. From the Grammy Awards to the BET Awards to CBS’ ”John Lewis: Celebrating a Hero” special, Collins — alongside his Jesse Collins Entertainment production company — has seemingly produced it all. Now the Emmy nominee is set to become the Pepsi Super Bowl […]
Rhythm + Flow Has Been Renewed for Season 2
Netflix’s new music competition series, Rhythm + Flow, has been renewed for a season 2. Judges Cardi B, Chance the Rapper, and T.I. are set to return. Here’s everything we know so far. Season 1 spoiler ahead. After its addicting season 1 that saw Inglewood rapper D-Smoke take home the first place crown, Rhythm + Flow has officially been renewed for season 2. […]
Bobby Brown on “The Bobby Brown Story,” mental health, and being in “the R&B ‘Lord of the Rings'”
Frequently during a recent conversation with R&B superstar Bobby Brown he returned to some version of an insistent refrain: “I’m just Bobby. Can’t be nobody else.”Such a statement presumes, perhaps correctly, that anyone hearing it has an opinion of Brown based on incomplete information. Not false, perhaps, but incomplete. “We know so much from the […]
‘The New Edition Story’: A Loving Tribute to a Talented but Tormented Group
Of all forms of homage, attention to detail is perhaps the most loving. It requires not just knowledge and dedication, but also thoughtfulness. It prizes accuracy both out of respect to the historical record, but also to those who wrote it. It celebrates the vision of the original creators more than the disruptive instincts of […]
