'Shooting Heroin': Film Review

Oakland, California, in recent years has been the setting of a number of bold, stylistically distinctive takes on race, African American identity and social conditioning, from the searing tragedy of Fruitvale Station through the hip-hop swagger of Blindspotting to the gonzo satire of Sorry to Bother You. That makes Black Panther co-writer Joe Robert Cole's reflection on the vicious cycle of gang culture and its toll on families an earnest but unrewarding disappointment.

The couple met in 1947, at a hockey rink in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. Terry Donahue had recently moved to the U.S.

In the opening scene of Never Have I Ever, Mindy Kaling's new coming-of-age comedy on Netflix, Devi Vishwakumar (Maitreyi Ramakrishnan) prays for what every 15-year-old Indian-American teenager raised in the suburbs yearns for.

I'll start by saying I'm no coffee snob. Like any American whose teen years were spent reconfiguring their MySpace Top 8 and hanging out in mall food courts, I made my foray into via a sugar-packed caramel .

A series about an African American man (André Holland) in France struggling to keep his nightclub and Parisian staff afloat amid a looming threat of organized crime seems as random as you can get for an actor who's made his mark in very American narratives like Selma, The Knick, High Flying Bird, and Moonlight. But the always fantastic Holland draws you into a story that ultimately challenges the definition of family and the limitations of home.

Recorded from home, of course

The first thing people will talk about when it comes to Penny Dreadful: City of Angels is its title. The new Showtime drama, premiering April 26, isn't a revival or a spin-off of Penny Dreadful, and it isn't exactly a new chapter in an American Horror Story-type anthology, although if series creator John Logan wants to go in that direction, he's got my blessing.

In the opening scene of Never Have I Ever, Mindy Kaling's new coming-of-age comedy on Netflix, Devi Vishwakumar (Maitreyi Ramakrishnan) prays for what every 15-year-old Indian-American teenager raised in the suburbs yearns for.

It only takes a few minutes for ingenious show runner Gloria Calderon Kellett to remind LGBT audiences why they fell in love with the reboot of “One Day at a Time.”

Lindsay Lohan during a virtual interview with David Spade on his chat show revealed that she would love to get back to the big screen with a possible Mean Girls sequel. The American actress cum singer stated during her interview that she would love to play her role of Cady Heron from Mean Girls.

The first thing people will talk about when it comes to Penny Dreadful: City of Angels is its title. The new Showtime drama, premiering April 26, isn't a revival or a spin-off of Penny Dreadful, and it isn't exactly a new chapter in an American Horror Story-type anthology, although if series creator John Logan wants to go in that direction, he's got my blessing.

Kelly Ripa has worn many hats in her lifetime. Aside from her tv hosting duties, Ripa also acts and produces, and she even got her start as a dancer on "Dance Party USA" -- not to mention she's a mother of three.

There's a Starman waiting in the sky — though we may be waiting a little while longer for him to come to the big screen.

It’s been 20 years since filmmaker Mary Harron released his horror-satire film American Psycho, and yet the infamous murder scene, in which Christian Bale brutally kills Jared Leto with an axe, continues to haunt us. The film came out on April 14, 2000, and was praised by critics and audiences.

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights has issued a landmark ruling that says Peru is responsible for the rape and torture of a transgender woman.

Crazy Rich Asians may have been named after (a tiny minority of) Asians in Asia, but it likely became so widely embraced by Asian Americans because it acknowledged us as a group distinct from our ethnic counterparts on the other side of the Pacific. Director Jon M.

'Master of None' producer Alan Yang reveals insights into his own upbringing, but falls short of fully capturing his immigrant father's experience, in this intimate drama now available on Netflix.

There’s no doubt that there is a heroin problem in the US. Daily lives are ruined if not worse, taken, by this drug that is supposed to help.