The Witches – Which Version is Better?

Midwest BSFA member Renee Tecco gives us her take on The Witches!

People who love the original version of The Witches are saying to skip the remake because it’s a lot like the 1990 version. They are saying to go watch the original. It makes sense that they are a lot alike because both versions follow the book. Roald Dahl, the author of the book The Witches saw the 1990 movie before he died and he didn’t like it because they changed his ending. So some prefer the book better.

Visiting Lovecraft Country: “Sundown” (Episode One Recap)

The new HBO show Lovecraft Country premiered last Sunday, Aug. 16, to the delight of many. We at Midwest BSFA are fully on board and ready to see where the show takes us! Founding member Renee Tecco gives us her thoughts on it before the second episode picks up where we left off tonight. [NOTE: What follows is an in-depth review of the first episode for those who don’t have or plan on getting HBO and didn’t watch it on YouTube. Consider yourself warned!] 

Midwest BSFA Celebrates Black Speculative Fiction Month!

Black Speculative Fiction Month is right around the corner and we can’t wait to share all of our recommendations with you! Be on the lookout for interviews with filmmaker Melody Cooper, author Charlie J. Askew and Tonia Thompson of the Nightlight podcast as well as reviews of Jamila Rowser’s Wobbledy 3000, Tee Franklin’s Jook Joint as well as info on our Black Speculative Fiction Shorts event on Oct. 28! October will be LIT! (As in “literature”…get it?…OK, I’ll show myself out.)

Sorry to Bother You Doesn’t “Stick To The Script”

Special guest contributor (and casual Midwest BSFA program participant) Geoffrey Dobbins gives us his take on Boots Riley’s Sorry to Bother You!

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Musings on Get Out

Get Out was released on DVD earlier this week so this is our chance to revisit the movie and the musings/analysis I didn’t post three months ago…

Musings on A Dance Between Dana Franklin and Millie-Christine

I love performances that keep me thinking about them long after they’re over. I alluded to this here on the blog when I saw Dana Michele: Yellow Towel and Okwui Okpokwasili’s Bronx Gothic at the Contemporary Arts Center. It recently happened again after I watched Napoleon Maddox workshop “A Dance Between Dana Franklin and Millie-Christine” at Chase Public last week.

African Speculative Fiction Crowdfunding Campaigns

It’s Black Speculative Fiction Month and there are some great African speculative fiction crowdfunding campaigns going on right now. Check them out! 

Musings on Bronx Gothic

I have so many feelings about Bronx Gothic. It’s been two days since I saw Okwui Okpokwasili’s scathing, heart-breaking performance on growing up female and there are so many thoughts swirling through my head I can barely process all of them.

Dana Michel: Yellow Towel

Before Dana Michel’s first performance of Yellow Towel at the Contemporary Arts Center this week, a friend of mine emailed a group of women in a local natural hair group to say we should all see this production because it’s about “a poem about hair.” That didn’t exactly end up being true. After seeing Yellow Towel, I don’t think it’s so much “about” hair as it is about how society boxes us in and/or locks us out.

Midwest BSFA Rewatch: Attack the Block

Midwest BSFA member Tiffany Luckey (of Another TV Blog) is back with the third installment of our “Rewatch” series, giving us her take on the 2011 film Attack the Block.