Tag Archives: Delroy Lindo

Sinners review — Southern Gothic and the Blues

April 21, 2025 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Ryan Coogler | 137 min | ▲▲▲1/2 | VOD Ryan Coogler has proved himself a major Hollywood talent from his indie beginning telling a story based on actual events on Fruitvale Station. Then Creed, a clinic on how to revive and spin off a legacy intellectual property. Black Panther was his… Read More

The Harder They Fall review — A shotgun blast of good times

November 6, 2021 flawintheiris

Directed by Jeymes Samuel | Written by Samuel and Boaz Yakin | 130 min | Netflix Westerns with Black casts aren't unprecedented, but they are a rarity. That's not all that makes this picture special — Director Jeymes Samuel, also a musican, tells the story with action and style to spare, fuel-injected with a hip-hop… Read More

Da 5 Bloods review — Spike Lee’s Vietnam War thriller on point

June 14, 2020 flawintheiris

Directed by Spike Lee | Written by Lee, Danny Bilson, Paul De Meo, and Kevin Willmott | 154 min | Netflix Four American Vietnam veterans — Paul, Otis, Melvin, and Eddie (Delroy Lindo, Clarke Peters, Isiah Whitlock Jr, and Norm Lewis) — are in country for the first time in decades — officially to get… Read More