On Thursday, February 7, 2019 AMC’s Shudder network presents documentary Horror Noire. Based on the acclaimed book of the same name by Dr. Robin R.  Means  Coleman, and Directed by Xavier Burgin Horror Noire takes  a critical look at a century of genre films that by turns utilized, caricatured, exploited, sidelined, and embraced both black filmmakers and black audiences. Horror Noire traces a secret history of Black Americans in Hollywood through their connection to the horror genre. There is even a special screening here in New York atBrooklyn Academy of Music on Monday Feb. 4. A double bill with Rusty Cundieff’s 1995 classic, Tales from the Hood. Tickets for this special event are on sale now at BAM.org. 

TNT’s Supernatural has been on the air so long, the show can parody itself. And in case you missed it, TNT is celebrating the 300th episode of the show by bringing back  Sam and Dean’s Dad John (played by Walking Dead’s Jeffrey Dean Morgan) AND the show just got picked up for it’s 15th season. I’ve been a fan off and on of this series for years. (My recent fave is the Scooby Doo episode). But if you’ve never watched the show and are wondering what the hype is all about, TNT is having a special marathon of fan favorites starting

A few weeks ago Freeform reached out and was kind enough to invite me to be on a panel for their new show Marvel’s Cloak and Dagger based on the old comicbook series.The show will make it’s two-hour debut on Freeform on June 7th starting at 8pm EST.  The event was co-sponsored by GirlForward an organization dedicated to empowering refugee girls. Freeform flew me out to Chicago, (where I actually just was a couple of months ago for C2E2 with SYFY), to screen the premiere with contest winners as well as speak on a short panel about the show.

BBC America dropped the news like a Beyoncé album this morning and I as well as many other fans of Doctor Who lost our collective minds. The 13th Doctor, who is essentially the previous 12th Doctor (played wonderfully by Peter Capaldi) in regenerated form, will be played by Jodie Whittaker. Whittaker is actually best known for her roles on the BBC’s hit show Broadchurch as well as movies like Attack the Block and One Day. If you haven’t finished Season 10 of Doctor Who I won’t spoil it for you but let’s just say at one point I was wondering if the Doctor was going to be able to regenerate at all. I am happy that for the first time in the show’s 54 year history they decided to make the Doctor a woman. But before all you SJW-haters hit your keyboards with reckless abandon, let me remind you

HBO invited me* to participate in a panel discussion at the Paley Center for Media about their new show Westworld, which debuted on their channel on October 2. (Spoiler alert for the first Episode!) Westworld is executive produced by J.J. Abrams and written and produced by husband and wife team Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy. It’s based on Michael Crichton’s 1973 Yul Brynner film of the same name and is a “false-reality drama”about a high-end theme park filled with life-like AI that basically are programmed to let the guests do whatever they want to them. Each AI is programmed within a certain storyline that loops and intersects with other storylines. When a storyline reaches it’s final stage,  then the AI is “wiped” and they are slotted back into another story. But things start to get dangerous when some of the AI’s aren’t fully wiped and are retaining “memories” of previous storylines and what they’ve been through. (Since this is HBO, they go through some ish). Basically, Westworld is what would happen if BioWare went to Jurassic Park, rebuilt it as a live-action, fully immersible, real-time Red Dead Redemption RPG theme park and instead of dinosaurs coming after you, a random AI side-character breaks its protocols, becomes sentient and tries to kill you.

Yeah. You didn’t see that in the promos either did you?  Read on my friend.

If you’ve been following me on twitter and Instagram, then you know I’m really excited about the upcoming series out of Australia and New Zealand called Cleverman. Premiering to critical acclaim at the Berlin International Film Festival earlier this year, Cleverman, produced by the Australian Broadcasting corporation and distributed in the US by SundanceTV, is a story basically asks, “What if only Indigenous people had superpowers?” It’s a very interesting concept, with shades of the X-Men, District 9, Heroes and even the real life Tuskeegee Experiment. With a reported 80% aboringinal cast and a storyline rooted in indigenous mythology, I am definitely looking forward to this show’s debut.

The two Turkish Airline spots (see below) that premiered after the SuperBowl last weekend actually impressed me. Not just because they cleverly advertised the upcoming DC Comics-based Batman vs Superman movie, but because by day, I’m a freelance commercial and promo editor . Needless to say, I was pretty stoked. The spots, directed and edited by Zack Snyder, the movie’s director and supported by ad agency Crispin Porter + Bogusky London advertise both Gotham City and Metropolis as tourist spots that have been recently added to the roster of Turkish Airlines flight destinations.

That ADHD Show actually isn’t about the medical condition, rather it’s about the geek with varying interests including comics, gaming, tv, movies etc. (I actually met the host Jeff J at the Black Comic Book Festival where I did an interview with him for his other job as a correspondent for NBCBLK a division of NBC News.) Jeff invited me on to talk about the premiere of Legends of Tomorrow, White Canary’s transformation and how Heatwave actually is one of the most entertaining secondary characters we’ve seen in awhile.  Check it out below: