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Sylvie’s Love is  a beautifully shot film that centers healthy, non-toxic black love that we sadly don’t get enough in films. As audiences we’re used to black love stories not centering black women or when they do, it's inevitably still surrounding some trauma involving a man. That’s what makes Sylvie’s Love such a refreshing watch. Eugene Ashe put together a beautiful offering about love, sacrifice, and purpose. 

 

The first thing that hits you about Sylvie’s Love is the aesthetics. One of the best trends in movies lately has been how vibrant period films starring Black people have been. This film is visually gorgeous. From the way it’s shot all the way to the outfits. When telling a story about black love, aesthetics can go a long way. Sylvie’s Love could absolutely work as a silent film and could tell its entire story with just the looks of the characters and the soundtrack. There’s an “old school” romance film vibe to Sylvie’s Love that has part of me want to see this film in black & white. I have no doubt it could pull this off.

NNAMDI ASOMUGHA as ROBERT HALLOWAY and TESSA THOMPSON as SYLVIE PARKER in SLYVIEÕS LOVE

 

Of course it helps to have a lead like Tessa Thompson. She’s absolutely fantastic as Sylvie. Black women aren’t typically given the chance to play a character like Sylvie and so it’s a joy to see someone as talented as Thompson get the chance. The film’s title “Sylvie’s Love”  is just as much about Sylvie finding and achieving what she loves and loving who she is as much as it about her love with Robert. Nnamdi Asomugha puts in an incredibly solid performance as Robert. Again, it's refreshing to see a character like Robert who has suffered trauma and disappointment but never takes that out on the Black woman he loves. We really do need more films that normalize non-toxic,  normal love between men and women, particularly Black men  and women. 

 

This is Eugene Ashe’s second feature film as a writer-director. If this is the quality we can expect from Ashe’s work then my hope is that we see much more from him and soon. Sylvie’s Love is a must see. The film premieres on Amazon Prime Video on December 23rd and shouldn’t be missed.

 

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It feels like we just crowned the Lakers, but here we are again, on the eve of a brand new NBA season. With the games tipping on December 22nd, it was imperative we get our own stamp on the truncated season to come, and I have yet to come up with a better preview conceit than win totals. New faces in new places, new coaches in quarter zip hoodies: after 72 games who is going to hold the crown next?

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MTR's science team, PFunk & Coqui, are back to talk voting in the pandemic, post-election news, and the culling in Denmark. Give it a listen!

* Election 2020: Quarantine Edition

• Racism and Greed is Killing Us - https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/11/06/930897912/many-places-hard-hit-by-covid-19-leaned-more-toward-trump-in-2020-than-2016

• Politicization of Science - https://www.pewresearch.org/science/2020/05/21/trust-in-medical-scientists-has-grown-in-u-s-but-mainly-among-democrats/

• Massive Mink Slaughter -

https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/05/europe/denmark-mink-cull-coronavirus-intl-hnk-scli/index.html

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The Doctor, Shanna, and friends of the show Ejiro and Tai join us to discuss season 4 of the Crown, including the introduction of Diana, the selfishness of Charles, the weak NY accents, the tyranny of Margaret Thatcher, and the failure of Queen Elizabeth II to truly mentor her heir in preparation to take the throne.  

 

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MTR's science team, PFunk & Coqui, are joined by Mark Carter of MC Squared (mc2e.net) to talk science, pop culture and the never ending COVID pandemic. Give it a listen!

* Dr. Stella vs. The Demon Sperm - https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-53579773

* Are At-Home Tests the Solution to the Pandemic? - https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2020/07/29/fda-opens-door-rapid-home-covid-19-tests/5536528002/ 

* FDA Paused Inspections in March... - https://www.raps.org/news-and-articles/news-articles/2020/3/contract-manufacturer-fda-has-halted-domestic-phar

* And Now Plans to Resume - https://www.medtechdive.com/news/fda-plans-to-restart-domestic-inspections-contingent-on-local-coronavirus/581408/

* Poison Hand Sanitizer - https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/fda-expands-hand-sanitizer-recall-least-75-brands-across-u-n1234246

* Why Italy Gets a Pizza Party - https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/31/world/europe/italy-coronavirus-reopening.html 

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On the surface, Promising Young Woman might seem like another rape revenge film but Director Emerald Fennell's film has a lot more depth to it than the torture porn the sub-genre has unfortunately become. A lot of films that fall into the "rape revenge" category, particularly those made by men, end up focusing more on the brutality of the rape or the revenge and in doing so, tend to still make these films that should center on women, more about the men. Where Promising Young Woman succeeds is that it never really takes the focus off the victim. It also explores what a victim really is in these situations, showing that there are a lot more victims that are affected than just the direct victim and the long lasting affects of this violation.

Promising Young Woman also doesn't let anyone "off the hook". Any time we see news about a rape or sexual assault that has occurred, we also see that the accused has a lot of enablers and defenders. And those people and systems that help these men get away with their crimes only leads to more bad behavior by "good guys". This film makes sure to call out the enablers and show how they all the sudden change tunes when they're the ones in the hot seat. To put it nicely (and without spoilers), let's just say there are a lot more people that are Dean Walkers and Madisons than want to admit.

This cast works very well together. Carey Mulligan is perfectly cast as Cassandra Thomas. She's perfectly blends humor, sarcasm, anger and vulnerability. Clancy Brown and Jennifer Coolidge are a great combination of loving parents who are also ready for their child to get out of their house and try to move on. The rest of the cast also works very well together and most do a lot with very little screen time. Molly Shannon has what can best be described as a cameo but it's a pretty impactful and more serious performance than one would expect.

The cast doing so much with  so little screen time is also what might disappoint some. Laverne Cox plays Gail, Cassandra's boss and she's great. But because she's Laverne Cox audiences might be expecting more. This is not to say that this is a film plagued by an underused cast. Rather its in the much better position of leaving an audience wanting more instead of needing more.

Promising Young Woman is by no means a perfect movie. No film really ever is. But it is a great blend of humor and seriousness that explores survivors guilt just as much as it does revenge.

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We really want to get through one month in 2020 without talking about "Zack Snyder's Justice League" but he just won't let us. Every time we get close to ending the month, he says something stupid. This time he's taken to "fixing" how the Flash saves people. Zack Snyder hasn't met a non-existent problem in comics he won't try to 'fix'. 

But we're not going to let this idiocy ruin all of our joy. The Miles Morales game is great. Kriss & Dpalm give a preview of what their premium discussion about that game will be. We also talk about not being ready for what Feige and the MCU have in store for us with Wandavision, WB making the obvious moves to drum up support for HBO Max with Wonder Woman 1984, Chris Claremont talks the moment that ruined Cyclops and what the future of the CW "Arrowverse" could be with all the cancellations. 

 

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When sports are doing nothing but causing you pain, it's okay to run to things designed to make you happy. During quarantine, I've been slowly brainwashing Susan into loving Star Wars, and after last week's episode of The Mandalorian, it was time to talk on podcast about it. We talk her not-so-slow indoctrination into The Force, and how there has never been a better time to binge.

Guest: SPalm

 

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The NBA put the trade deadline, draft and free agency right on top of each other because the season kicks off next month! We tackle this and Dabo going full Dabo over his failure to protect his players and ask what the NFL is going to do with all this.

Guest: The Homie Mike

 

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With the release of the Miles Morales: Spider-Man game for Playstation 4 & 5, it's the perfect time to do a follow-up on Miles Morales. Back in 2015 we did a Character Corner on Miles (Listen here). Since then a lot has happened. Matter of fact, around the time of that episode, Miles was making the huge transition from the 1610 Ultimate Universe to the main 616 universe through Jonathan Hickman's Secret Wars. The result of Secret Wars saw big changes for Miles as not only did he make it over to 616 but so did his family and friends. And with that Marvel now has two Spider-Men to play with: The elder Peter Parker who deals with the challenges of being Spider-Man as an adult and the teenage Miles Morales that still gives readers that classic "teenage Spider-Man angst". 

The other big thing that's changed with Miles is that his creator Brian Michael Bendis finally passed the character along to another writer. Saladin Ahmed picked up the writing duties of Brooklyn's Spider-Man and not only has it been great, but the arc has tied directly back to Secret Wars and the fact that Miles & his family/friends are not from 616. It's been a great run so far and we can't wait to see how it all plays out. 

Listen as we give the update on Miles and talk about how he's gone from new character 9 years ago to an unstoppable force that can't be too far from a live action debut.

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