HeyJaredBlack Girl Watching
Film, TV and Culture critique through a Black feminist lens, from the pen of Brooke Obie.
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‘Your Mother, Your Mother, Your Mother’ Is About Your Dad (opens the original)
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**********Mild spoilers for Your Mother, Your Mother, Your Mother**********How many mothers is Your Mother, Your Mother, Your Mother about? If you guessed zero, you would be correct! This film is about Your Dad and how hard he has it.This is first evident in the fact that writer-director Bassam Tariq’s film stars a dad, Mahershala Ali. He plays an assassin named Latif, a devout Muslim who cuts down Islamophobic violent enemies with his swords. On the poster for the film, he is rocking his newbor
The Best (and the Rest) of TIFF 2026 (opens the original)
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Thanks to Rotten Tomatoes’ Critics Grant program, this was my third year of #BGWatTIFF (Black Girl Watching at the Toronto International Film Festival), my favorite fest of all the fests! I don’t know if it’s just Toronto in early fall, which is the perfect, crisp weather, or that my schedule is usually jam packed morning to night with fantastic films from all over the world, but TIFF makes me feel so hopeful about cinema. (ICYMI, <a href="https://bl
Dangerous Art: Macklemore’s Stand, and Colman Domingo’s Revolutionary Film (opens the original)
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As I was returning from the 51st Toronto International Film Festival this week—my favorite film festival, and my third representing Black Girl Watching—Macklemore got kicked off of Ed Sheeran’s global tour for saying “Free Palestine.” Now, I do not listen to Macklemore or Ed Sheeran. I had no idea they were on tour. And now I am a subject-matter expert on the rousing speech Macklemore gave for Palestinian liberation during his opening
‘The Death of the Pastor’s Wife’ Crucifies the Church, ‘Lanterns’ Spawns White Tears (opens the original)
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Happy September! This week’s streaming fare has the internets on fire with folks trying to take down a (serial killer?) pastor; white folks losing their minds over their favorite superhero being labeled racist, but is that enough to make it a Black show? Also, our favorite undeniably Black Scooby-Doo gang gets one step closer to buried treasure—and two steps back. And finally, one new film that portrays a real civil rights leader is being called out by the leader’s widow and son as a “white savi
The 10 Best Shows on TV Right Now (opens the original)
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****Paid subscribers can watch a Q&A with the cast of Widow’s Bay below****I’ve done it! I’ve watched all the TV there is to watch (not really, but I have watched a LOT of TV), and found the 10 best shows on TV right now. While I’m all for giving a show an opportunity to grow and find its footing, the best TV draws me in right away with an excellent pilot episode. Great pilots are incredibly difficult pull off: you have to introduce the world, the characters, and significant obstacles that will
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