Month: May 2025

An example of musical excellence in film format, ‘Love Beats Rhymes’ manages to deliver one of the most thoughtful, significant, and everlasting statements about poetic expression; what it means to struggle against adversity and how unforeseen hardships can be channeled immaculately into artistic pursuit. Main cast: Azealia Banks, John David Washington, Jill Scott, Lucien Laviscount, MC Jin, Common, Lorraine Toussaint,…

“I would prefer not to.” Those are the words of a man beset by anxiety, unassailable procrastination, mental fog, and introversion – the likes of which are incomprehensible to all those around him. Crispin Glover plays the eponymous Bartleby capturing the necessary air of ethereal aloofness required in bringing such a role to life. Is 'Bartleby' a story about a…