(Akiit.com) (**) The thrill is gone. The Marvel Universe shoots a blank. A tiny one. Arguably, the itty-bitty Ant-Man and The Wasp aren’t the most impressive superheroes. So, any new adventure for the self-promoting, mildly amusing Scott Lang (Paul Rudd), aka Ant-Man, and his sidekick/lover Hope Van Dyne (Evangeline Lilly), ...
(Akiit.com) (**) Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should. For some reason veteran director M. Night Shyamalan (The Sixth Sense) has decided to put a lot of bad juju vibes out into the world. If you’re curious, read on. It’s an unusual premise, but so what. Four strangers (Dave ...
(Akiit.com) Just in time for the beginning of so-called “Black History Month,” Al Sharpton shed his dual role of hater and agitation profiteer, to include a third role of encomiast, as he did his best representation of all three at the funeral of Tyre Nichols. In the best tradition of ...
(Akiit.com) (***1/2) Sometimes when mom and dad are away, the kids will play. But what happens when mom and dad don’t comeback. Then what? The writers and directors of this amazing, tech-savvy mystery thriller know how to cut things close. That’s because they were the editors on the cult classic Searching. Back ...
(Akiit.com) President Joe Biden‘s Labor Department recently announced a new rule that will permit money managers to play politics with trillions of dollars of people’s retirement savings. The administration is pushing environmental, social and governance investing, which allows retirement fund managers to select stocks of companies based on their positions ...
(Akiit.com) (**1/2) Bringing the ‘90s back is hard work. So hard this new House Party reboot only gets half the job done. But when it’s on, it’s on. For those who were in a drug induced comma during 1990 (you know who you are), the duo Kid ‘n Play (Christopher Reid and ...
(Akiit.com) George Santos, a 34-year-old Republican congressman-elect, has gained notoriety before even coming to Washington. He was elected to the Congress from a Long Island, New York, district this fall on a resume and a campaign constructed on breath-taking fabrications. He lied about where he lives. He lied about where ...
(Akiit.com) Just four days after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968, the inveterate warrior, Congressman John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.), introduced legislation to make his birthday a federal holiday. It took 15 years, hundreds of protests, a song and a tour to make Dr. King’s birthday ...
(Akiit.com) LAPD Chief Michel Moore wants a second five-year term as LAPD chief. It is up to the L.A. Police Commission and L.A. Mayor Karen Bass to approve his reappointment. The early indications are that they will. However, as I mentioned in a prior column on Moore and the LAPD, ...
(Akiit.com) I’ve written about the importance of judges a few times over the last year. And every time I do, I realize that many people have never met a judge. Or they have, but it was at a time when they’d rather have been anywhere else. So the idea that ...
(Akiit.com) (**1/2) It’s an illusion. When actress Naomi Ackie stands with her back to the camera, you stare at her clothes, wigs, physique and mannerisms and get tricked into thinking that’s Whitney Houston. Then she turns around, and it’s not. It’s a recurring mirage. A string of images that give Houston’s fans something ...
(Akiit.com) One of legendary comedian and social activist Dick Gregory’s off told jokes about Blacks and suicide went like this. “Whites when they want to do away with themselves jump out of a window in a tall building. Blacks when they want to do the same jump out of a ...