No spoilers One of the best coaches I know is named J.S. (I don’t want to disclose his name). I’ve known Coach S for almost twenty years. He’s no longer on the bench and it breaks my heart. Coach is one of the best basketball minds in the country. He’s worked at every level from…
No spoilers (as difficult as it is to write this without saying anything about what happens in each episode…) Check out my Season 1 and 2 Discussions In my Season 1 analysis I stated, “Just when you think a character is one thing, they become something different.” In my Season 2 analysis I wrote, “At…
No spoilers ahead (read the season 1 review) Servant on Apple TV+ Season 1 is a Cracked Window with Tentacles Spreading to Where? After meeting Leanne in Season 1 and attempting to understand the narrative being laid out in this thriller, I realized as the first season closed an unreliable narrator, or in this case…
Set Free Richardson orchestrated the biggest headache for high school head coaches across the country. When the And1 Mixtape thing spread to California I was a young head coach at Crawford High School in San Diego. I was still in college and got dragged into the gym because the coach the school hired had issues…
One of the most difficult aspects of writing about an unfinished work of art is the inability to discuss the whole. This is obvious but is overlooked in many reviews on YouTube and articles written about a particular story. I’m walking into Servant with only the trailer as an introduction, although it’s ridiculously difficult to…
I try not to do spoilers when I’m diving into a film discussion, so if parts of this post seem vague, chalk it up to me saving you from learning what the film is truly about. Old arrived in 2021. Because of Covid I avoided heading to the theaters to watch. I finally had a…
While I could have spent time finding something negative to build a discussion around, I decided that this Juneteenth weekend was a good time to celebrate three sneaker companies making an effort to deliver opportunities to African-American creatives. Reebok’s Reconnect is a beautiful short film campaign: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60vbaeIP8p4 The man behind the film: https://news.reebok.com/global/latest-news/all/reebok-unveils-first-look-at-new-brand-aesthetic-with-video-series-centered-on-sports-and-community/s/15336997-6326-410a-8199-7e58a19bdc0c K-Swiss’ Documentary…
Black food is American food. Chef and writer Stephen Satterfield traces the delicious, moving throughlines from Africa to Texas in this docuseries. If High on the Hog was a museum, my wife and I walked into the room and were overwhelmed with the beauty. Cooking is art and the idea of elevated cuisine is often…
Source: FILA Becomes the Official Footwear and Apparel Partner of “A Most Beautiful Thing” Film Documentaries are almost always undermarketed and targeted to a specific audience, which limits the reach of the content. A story about rowing wouldn’t typically hit my radar at all. A story about rowing, in Chicago, with African-Americans? This undoubtedly captured…
Source: A Kid from Coney Island | Watch Now Gil Scott-Heron once sang Guan Guan Co on the combined track for The Bottle on his album Winter in America. Guan Guan Co is an “African concept paying homage to the snake because of the ability for the snake to shed its skin and to be…
I was packing kicks the other day and one of my peers, Parde, hit me on LinkedIn and said, “Go watch High Flying Bird.” It was cryptic and without any real information, but if Parde (featured in one of my Project + Exec interviews) says go do something, I go do it. Project + Exec…
This episode of Patriot Act is the epitome of how hype is created and it perfectly utilizes the refutation in research to tear down the logic around hype. Hasan lays the groundwork by introducing and covering “Conspicuous Consumption”, which leads to a discussion on the Carlyle Group’s investment into Supreme. It is definitely worth 24…
Too often the stories of our heroes are told after their demise. We get the details about what they went through via biopics or biographies. That’s not a problem, but in Hip-Hop it’s a constant which is unfortunately common because our shining stars are cut down in their prime. Bobbito Garcia’s life has been…
Alright once I moved beyond the fact that dude got his sister killed… I could actually watch the film without screaming at Tariq for being a busta, lol. Actually, his name is Torren in the film Amateur, but talk about a kid who played his role a bit too well in Power, sheesh. Amateur is…
A kid named Miles Morales from Brooklyn… could only wear one shoe right? It was either the Retro 1 or the Uptown aka Air Force 1 in all white. I’ve been making the point lately that the concept of sneakerheads has to change. The range of people who now consider themselves sneakerheads is so…
Alright, I don’t care if you like basketball or not, this trailer just makes you smile. I have to be the first to admit that basketball movies often fail miserably at the basketball part. The best basketball movie and possibly one of the best films of all time is Finding Forrester. The runner up…
Vince Allen is a 16 year old guitar player in Memphis. This is his latest video on YouTube. He took the time to add his song “Focus” to a scene from one of my favorite movies District B-13. The scene features the main character running from a group of drug dealers after he stole…
Finished WestWorld last night and to be honest the 10 series-first season was very hard to push through on occasion. The pacing of the show is terrible. During viewings I often found myself dozing off at critical times causing me to rewind and watch again to make sure I wasn’t overlooking an important detail. The…
Source: FILM | STRETCH AND BOBBITO If you visit this site and consider yourself a part of the Hip-Hop and Sneaker Culture (I’m waiting on sneakers to be added to the elements of Hip-Hop), then you should know who these two are. If you don’t then excuse yourself and do some research. I’m dropping…
I have a number of tools that I used to develop ideas or maintain my focus on business. I often visit www.inc.com and of course I read books that can assist me in gaining some type of edge. This is absolutely necessary when you are a sole proprietor/entrepreneur. Often a small businessperson sits isolated on…
Okay that title is pretty vague, and I will be the first to say that this blog does not get a crazy amount of traffic, so being vague is not a good thing. I love the blog: http://www.shadowandact.com/ . Not because the title derived from my favorite author, but because the blog has the most…
(Originally posted in 2010 revised for MLK Day 2015) On January 1st, I dropped a trailer for the film Night Catches Us. I didn’t know a lot about the film, but I knew that Kerry Washington and Anthony Mackie were the lead actors and to me this meant that it was a movie worth my…
