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Fifty years ago, “Good Times” premiered on CBS. The series — starring Esther Rolle, John Amos, Jimmie Walker, Bern Nadette Stanis, Ralph Carter and Ja’Net DuBois — was set in 1970s Chicago in the public housing projects in a poor Black neighborhood. The spinoff of “Maude,” the first series to feature a two-parent Black family on television, was created by Eric Monte and Mike Evans, and developed by the late TV legend Norman Lear.
Director Stephen Herek’s 1991 cult comedy, “Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead,” is a bit of an awkward movie to talk about today.
You know how sometimes when there’s been such a wide spectrum of passionate, well-argued reactions to a film that you begin to think that it might actually be superb since it’s already ignited such a fascinating and polarizing debate? Well, “Civil War” proves that theory wrong.
Let’s get this out of the way first: With “Monkey Man,” Dev Patel, 33, co-wrote his way out of what might have been years of more Hollywood hell. White male-directed films like “Slumdog Millionaire,” others where he would have played the love interest of white women like in “Lion” or the nice, tokenized South Asian character like in “The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel.”
In today’s climate, where billionaires are swallowing media companies whole, it seems like every fictional TV or movie plot even marginally concerning wealthy characters must confront a number of familiar questions. Do the have-nots “eat the rich”? Does the story effectively make the audience want to condemn the wealthy or affluence in general?
There’s a moment in writer-director John Ridley’s new film, “Shirley,” based on the life and career of Shirley Chisholm, the first Black U.S. congresswoman, when you think it’s going to finally buckle under its own austere weight and let us see some humanity.
The question of a way forward always comes to mind when new allegations emerge against Hollywood and/or its foot soldiers, as is the case with “Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV.” The new Investigation Discovery docuseries reflects on allegations of toxicity at Nickelodeon throughout the late ’90s and 2000s.
Awards season is, thankfully, nearly over as the 96th Academy Awards are set to take place on Sunday in Los Angeles.