On Tuesday evenings, my daughter has dance class. She takes a combination tap and jazz class and is a good dancer. She is now seven years old and her mother and I have had her in dance since she was nearly two. I’ve been a dance dad for a very long time. Even now, I’m getting a little misty-eyed thinking back to the…

Last weekend, I took my dad to see Sicario — Denis Villeneuve’s gripping and graphic (very, very, very graphic) depiction of the drug war. Now, while Sicario has done well at the box office, it wasn’t exactly a blockbuster — nor was it intended to be — so with that in mind, plus the fact that we went to a 10pm show at…

One of my favorite tropes is the white savior, especially in movies. You know this person, mostly because they're white and they come in and do the types of stuff that white people with money and time* do: save coloreds. Well, pop culture and movies have been littered with tremendous examples of the white savior. And…