Brooke C. Obie is a filmmaker, film/TV screenwriter, award-winning author, award-winning entertainment journalist and critic. Brooke has served as the Editor-in-Chief of Will Packer Media’s lifestyle site xoNecole and as Managing Editor for the Black film/TV site Shadow & Act. Brooke currently is the editor/curator of Black Girl Watching on Substack.
We talk Ryan Coogler’s Sinners, Zora Neale Hurston’s Barracoon and a coupla other things.
brookeobie.com
The “Hurston-Walker Test”
https://blavity.com/entertainment/queen-slim-review
In ‘Sinners,’ the Deaths Feel Like a Metaphor (Review)
https://blackgirlwatching.substack.com/p/sinners-movie-explained
We Will Always Need ‘Slave Movies’
https://blackgirlwatching.substack.com/p/we-will-always-need-slave-movies
The Oscars Will Not Save Us
https://blackgirlwatching.substack.com/p/the-oscars-will-not-save-us
The Vernon Philosophy of Black Media Avoidance
https://youtu.be/HBEbG7A4qL4?si=9C7fVnJB6ybNIMXh
#Sinners #oscarssowhite #hollywood #blackart