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I Watched Netflix’s Step Sisters. It Was the Best of Times, It Was the Worst of Times

Spoiler alert: There will be spoilers and a plot review in this write-up. Netflix’s controversial original movie Step Sisters finally debuted on Jan. 19. After it dropped, Lena Waithe hit the tweets to ask folks what they thought about it. Those opinions ranged, but it didn’t seem like anybody was ready to call for a…

By

Panama Jackson

Published

January 22, 2018
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Mudbound and Other Films That Get Black Folks Pissed Off at White People

Over the holiday break, I finally got around to watching Netflix’s Mudbound, last year’s period drama by director Dee Rees (who also wrote and directed 2011’s magnificent Pariah). The film was adapted from the 2008 Hillary Jordan novel about two families—one black and one white—attempting to stay afloat by sharecropping the same patch of hard…

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Dustin J. Seibert

Published

January 8, 2018
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10 Reasons I’m Most Likely Going to Watch Netflix’s Step Sisters

On Jan. 19, Netflix is going to set Twitter afire with the release of its original film Step Sisters. I remember when Drumline: A New Beat (effectively Drumline 2) came out on VH1 (and was terrible), black folks had a field day tearing it to shreds. But this shit right here? This shit right here,…

By

Panama Jackson

Published

January 3, 2018