ryan coogler

When I watch Ryan Coogler’s films (2013’s Fruitvale Station, 2015’s Creed and 2018’s Black Panther) the palpability of feeling he puts into portraying key elements of the black experience washes over me.  His movies examine how a father’s…

The Rocky franchise isn't all that different in many ways from Star Wars. Both of them are pop icon series of films birthed in the seventies but came to epitomise the death of that decade's cinema and usher in the glossier, muscle-bound…