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Marilyn Monroe Movies: Niagara

Marilyn Monroe Movies: Niagara

After Blonde, I’m going right to the source—Marilyn Monroe’s movies. Ever since reading the book Blonde and then watching the Netflix adaptation, I’ve been on a Marilyn Monroe kick. The book, a highly fictionalized imagining of Marilyn Monroe by Joyce Carol Oates,...
Sex/Life

Sex/Life

“Sex/Life” is an erotic escape focusing on a woman’s sexual desires, and nobody has to die. I’d only watched one episode of the Netflix series Sex/Life and I was 100% in. I mean, honestly, I was in when I saw the splash screen advertising the new series.  Netflix...
Top Three Books I Read in 2022

Top Three Books I Read in 2022

Happy new year! I don’t know about you, but I’m looking forward to doing things a little differently in 2023. For one thing, I want to be more intentional and consistent with my book reading this year. I was all over the place, sporadic and moody in 2022. I’d start a...
Eyes Wide Shut: Tis the Season

Eyes Wide Shut: Tis the Season

In last week’s blog, I mentioned that watching the movie Eyes Wide Shut was one of my winter holiday traditions. Some of you were probably like, What? Hear me out. Eyes Wide Shut is legit a Christmas movie. This can be easy to forget, competing with ritualistic orgies...
The Noel Diary: ‘Tis the Season

The Noel Diary: ‘Tis the Season

I’m getting into Christmas movies for the first time in my life. I think it all started with the For Colored Nerds “Lifetime’s Black Christmas” podcast about the Lifetime network’s holiday films and how they’re incorporating BIPOC,...