Writer-director-editor Gregg Furuoka’s debut feature-length sci-fi Tethered is a beautiful self-contradiction in all the right ways. The film follows the rapidly unraveling life of Detective Samantha “Sam”…… Read more “New from Jonita Davis on The Black Cape: Review: ‘Tethered’ Offers a Sci-Fi Experience Not for the Faint of Heart”

Last Saturday, DC Entertainment held the sophomore edition of their virtual annual multimedia convention dubbed the DC FanDome. From panels on the multiverse, featurettes on the diverse…… Read more “New from Jonita Davis on The Black Cape: Musings on the Missing Pieces of FanDome”

Black Cape Media (BCM) reporter Mike Majett sat down with the writer and producer of I Know What You Did Last Summer Sara Goodman. Together, Mike and Sara dive…… Read more “New from Jonita Davis on The Black Cape: ‘I Know What You Did Last Summer’ Writer/Producer Sara Goodman Talks Reboots, Identity, and ‘Get Out’”

The Hulu documentary Jacinta follows a young woman as she tries to restart her life after prison. She is also a recovering opioid addict. This is not the…… Read more “New from Jonita Davis on The Black Cape: Interview: Hulu’s ‘Jacinta’ Star Jacinta Herself and Director Jessica Earnshaw Chat About Filming, Legalities, and More”

The 2021 Chicago Film Festival started last week and has been a flurry of movies and activity for The Black Cape. While we have viewed several films…… Read more “New from Jonita Davis on The Black Cape: Our View List From Chicago International Film Festival 2021”

The venerable Aunjanue Ellis sat down with me to discuss her latest film The Subject, which comes out on VOD and in select theaters on October 22.…… Read more “New from Jonita Davis on The Black Cape: Aunjanue Ellis Tells Us About ‘The Subject’ and Breaking the “Grieving Black Mother” Trope”

The film centers people of color over the age of 40 in roles that are rarely seen for them. In doing so, Director Gigi Guerrero is breaking…… Read more “New from Jonita Davis on The Black Cape: Review: Gigi Guerrero’s ‘Bingo Hell’ Turns Abuelas and Big Mamas into Monster-Stomping Heroes”

007 is traditionally a womanizing British spy who’s considered the “quintessential man”. The Bond films were mostly seeded with sexism and toxic masculinity. Many of the stories…… Read more “New from Jonita Davis on The Black Cape: Review: ‘No Time to Die’ Proves that 007 is better with Black Girl Magic”

It was tough to avoid all the rumors about the relationship between Eddie Brock (Tom Hardy) and Venom (also Tom Hardy). From love interests to a master-slave…… Read more “New from Jonita Davis on The Black Cape: Review: ‘Venom: Let There Be Carnage’ Shows How Platonic Masculine Bonds Can Exist”

Kevin Hart has a tv show Hart to Heart and it’s something you need to watch. the setting is more subdued than we are used to and the…… Read more “New from Jonita Davis on The Black Cape: Clip: Taraji “With the Pink Hair” Henson on Hart to Heart Talks Normalizing Trauma & More”