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Carter & June

Film Review by Kam Williams Bank Heist Dramedy Has Shades of Baby Driver Baby Driver was this critic’s pick for the #1 movie of 2017. It never takes very long for idea-bereft Hollywood to imitate […]

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The Gospel According to André

Film Review by Kam Williams   Riveting Retrospective Chronicles Career of Flamboyant Fashionista André Leon Talley was born on October 16, 1949 in Washington, DC, but raised in Durham, NC by his maternal grandmother, Bennie […]

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George Takei

The “American” Interview with Kam Williams   Legendary Thespian Reflects on Mistreatment of Japanese-Americans during WWII Despite an enviable career spanning six decades, George Takei remains best- known around the world for his founding role […]

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Life of the Party

Film Review by Kam Williams   Just-Dumped Divorcee’ Returns to College in Bawdy, Midlife Crisis Comedy Deanna Miles (Melissa McCarthy) was a junior in college when she got pregnant and dropped out of school to […]

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A Perilous Path

Book Review by Kam Williams   Talking Race, Inequality and the Law by Sherrilyn Ifill, Loretta Lynch, Bryan Stevenson and Anthony G. Thompson The New Press Hardcover, $14.99 126 pages ISBN: 978-1-62097-395-0   “We are […]

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American

Film Review by Kam Williams   Inter-Generational Drama Recounts Internment of Japanese-Americans during WWII A couple of months after the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, President Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066. In […]

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Bad Samaritan

Film Review by Kam Williams   Burglar Discovers Psychopath’s Lair in Riveting Suspense Thriller As an adolescent, Sean (Robert Sheehan) was dragged by his mom from Ireland to Portland, Oregon so that his step-dad could […]

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Kings

Film Review by Kam Williams Period Piece Features Halle Berry as Mom Frantically Searching for Kids during Rodney King Riots On March 3, 1991, five LAPD officers were caught on camera beating an unarmed black […]

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Supercon

Film Review by Kam Williams   Hollywood Has-Beens Exact Revenge on Crooked Promoter in Campy Action Comedy Back in the Eighties, Keith Mahar (Russell Peters) was a child actor who found fame playing the young […]

National Entertainment

Melinda Janko

Melinda with Elouise Cobell   The “100 Years: One Woman’s Fight for Justice” Interview with Kam Williams     Melinda’s Native Agenda! Upon graduating cum laude from Emerson College, Melinda Janko founded Turning Point Productions, […]