BY ALEX SMITH From its opening scene, Sorry to Bother You is an explosive treatise on capitalism, American bootstrap culture, and how capital-driven systems work to crush, rearrange, and dehumanize the human spirit. Told through the lens of cleverly-monikered Cassius Green (LaKeith Stanfield), a young Black...
BY ALEX SMITH “What’d I do today? Oh my god, I got some new jeans.” This triumphant opening line is the start to Brontez Purnell’s 100 Boyfriends Mixtape, the first moment we see the film’s lone subject: a gay Black man named DeShawn, played by Purnell...
BY ALEX SMITH SERIES INTRO: For these strange times, Alex Smith for cinéSPEAK presents a recurring series of articles and interviews that will take a look at the electric Philadelphia sci-fi, fantasy and speculative futures community! This series will showcase the region’s fantastic arts through a...
BY ALEX SMITH Gay and trans characters, frank discussion about race, the war on drugs, political intrigue, societal generation gaps within the Black liberation movement, and all the healthy (and unhealthy) teen angst to fill any CW show writer’s moleskine— we’re talking about Milestone Comics, an...