Gentle readers: Oscar nominations were announced today and if you’re anything like me, you are drowning in Oscar coverage. So here is some more coverage. (You’re welcome.) I’m adapting this blog from an email where I regaled my friends with my very unsolicited, very lengthy opinions about said nominations. And they were like, “OK.” I…
Jordan Peele’s directorial debut is about racism and social injustices, but not of the Nazi, alt-right variety. Rather, his film Get Out focuses on the ways middle-class white liberals act and the things they say that in turn make black people feel so uncomfortable. From the “I would’ve voted for Obama a third time if…
Jordan Peele (RIP, Key & Peele) has a new horror movie hitting theaters in February that he not only wrote, but also directed. The horror-thriller, entitled Get Out, follows a black guy, Chris (Daniel Kaluuya), as he travels upstate with his white girlfriend, Rose (Allison Williams), to meet the parents. After being profiled and harassed by a racists cop, Chris’…