Njera Perkins

6 days ago | huffpost.com | Njera Perkins

This article includes material from HuffPost’s weekly culture and entertainment newsletter, The Culture Catchall. Click here to subscribe. There’s a scattered sequence midway through Ryan Coogler’s “Sinners” where the Jim Crow-era horror flick completely abandons expectations of twin Michael B. Jordans fighting off bloodthirsty vampires to transport viewers to a time-warped fever dream in the centralized juke joint.

1 week ago | huffpost.com | Njera Perkins

For U.S. audiences, the driving plot behind the new season of “Boarders” will feel awfully timely, and that’s not because series creator Daniel Lawrence Taylor felt inspired by the recent attacks on diversity, equity and inclusion happening in America. That initiative kicked off by the Trump administration earlier this year hadn’t even occurred to Lawrence Taylor when production on his British teen dramedy began again last summer.

1 week ago | huffpost.com | Njera Perkins

Warning: This story contains spoilers for “Zero Day,” “G20″ and “Paradise.”Another U.S. president was accused of being unfit for the job. No, I’m not talking about Donald Trump’s questionable leadership or even the criticism Joe Biden faced last year during his reelection campaign. This is an accusation Robert De Niro’s former President George Mullen faces in “Zero Day,” Netflix’s latest political thriller that tackles cyberterrorism.

1 week ago | huffpost.com | Njera Perkins

This article includes material from HuffPost’s weekly culture and entertainment newsletter, The Culture Catchall. Click here to subscribe. Gun violence. Racial bias. Anti-vaxxers. Opioid abuse. Abortion access. Mental health. A national nursing shortage. Understaffed hospitals. Lasting effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. And an overwhelmed emergency medicine system.

2 weeks ago | huffpost.com | Njera Perkins

This article includes material from HuffPost’s weekly culture and entertainment newsletter, The Culture Catchall. Click here to subscribe. Co-stars-turned-lovers is a cliché as old as Hollywood, but it never fails to get our attention. Enter Sydney Sweeney and Glen Powell, who are back in the headlines, causing all sorts of commotion with reignited romance rumors.