I’m Back!! I know missed you all a couple of weeks, had to take a little vacay, but I’m ready to drop some goodies for you!! Don’t you just love that we can get some film and television newness with the snap of a finger! Well let’s see what we got this week for you!!
Check them out below:
Loot (Streaming on Apple TV+ June 24th)
Season 4-Westworld (Streaming on HBO Max June 26th)
Season 2-Only Murders in the Building (Streaming on Hulu June 28th)
Black Bird (Streaming on Apple TV+ July 8th)
Persuasion (Streaming on Netflix July 15th)
Power Book III: Raising Kanan (Streaming on STARZ August 14th)
So this past weekend I had the pleasure of being featured in two news outlets VCU News and USA Today!!
For VCU News, I was interviewed about one of my Spring courses, “Say Her Name: Humanizing the Black Female Voice in Television.” I got a chance to surprise my students with one of the actress [Cherokee Hall who plays “Extra Extra”] from the STARZ television series “P-Valley”.
Check out some of the story here:
It’s important to Gipson that the course engages with what’s happening in the world. The representation of Black female actors and the characters they take on has always been essential to the success of television as a medium,” she said.
However, Hollywood is not quick to showcase, celebrate, and even hire them. Television has made strides, but it has been inconsistent and slow moving,” she said, adding that many of the women whose work the course studies are breaking barriers and re-setting television culture. I want students to see how television and film are a way to tackle issues and problems.
Now for the USA Today article, I switch gears and offer some social commentary on the Dave Chappelle incident and whether America can still handle a joke!!
Here are a few of my thoughts below:
But the combustible cultural moment we are living in — one roiled by political discord and pandemic restrictions — certainly is testing that joke and let joke philosophy, says Grace Gipson, assistant professor in the department of African American studies at Virginia Commonwealth University.
I feel like in his day Richard Pryor took things to an extreme maybe even greater than what we see today, but no one was bum rushing the stage, says Gipson. Today, it seems like people are free to show their anger beyond heckling.
The Time has changed, the Weather is getting warmer, and I got more tv and film newness just for you!! Looks like these next few month are going to continue to bring us the hotness!!
Check out some of the new things dropping in theaters and on your streaming networks!!
Season 2-Woke (Streaming on Hulu April 8th)
Outer Range (Streaming on Prime Video April 15th)
Season 6-Better Call Saul (Streaming on AMC/AMC+ April 18th)
Lots of good content that dropping this month! Got a mix of thriller, some docu-series, a little drama and leave you with some laughs! Check out some of the newness below:
KIMI (Streaming on HBO Max February 10th)
Everything’s Gonna Be All White (Streaming on Showtime February 11th)
Lincoln’s Dilemma (Streaming on Apple TV+ February 18th)
All American: Homecoming (Streaming on The CW February 21st)
Cheaper By The Dozen (Streaming on Disney+ March 18th)
Another week and another set of trailers waiting just for you!! Got a nice mix of returning and relaunched series, new films, and even a Pixar movie!! So dive right in and check them out below:
Definition Please (Streaming on Netflix January 21st)
The Worst Person in the World (In theaters February 4th)
Season 2-Sweet Magnolia (Streaming on Netflix February 4th)
Power Book IV: Force (Streaming on STARZ February 6th)
The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder (Streaming on Disney+ February 23rd)
Not only do you get Dr. G’s 2021 Faves, but I had to make sure I gave you a bonus list! Check out Black Future Feminist Intern Jaya as she offers her two cents for 2021!!
Here is a list of my favorite things that came out and/or discovered for the first time this year. These are things that I discovered that really stuck with me through this crazy year. So for my final post of 2021 here are a few things that got me through this year and here’s to a new year!
Last week of 2021, but that does not mean the trailers end here! Better yet just think of this week’s trailers as a foreshadow to what is to come in 2022!! So check them out below:
Season 4-Cobra Kai (Streaming on Netflix December 31st, 2021)
Death on the Nile (In theaters February 11th, 2022)
Inventing Anna (Streaming on Netflix February 11th, 2022)
Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty (Streaming on HBO Max March 2022)
Season 3-Atlanta (Streaming on FX March 24th, 2022)
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (In theaters May 6th, 2022)
Black Future Feminist 