In This Very Ring: Bitter Friends, Stiffer Enemies

Pro wrestling is a weird bastard art, and if you’re unfamiliar with its intricacies, the hordes of people in your social media circles obsessively pontificating about it every Monday night must be a truly confounding experience. Let our very own Dominic Griffin, lifelong wrestling enthusiast, Read More …

Dark Gable Presents… Cotton Comes To Harlem

Diversity and representation have long been a serious issue in the film industry, and 12 Years A Slave winning some Oscars hasn’t exactly changed that. Outside of that prestigious anomaly, people rarely imagine black film to be much more than gangster movies, cookout comedies, and Tyler Perry. Our very own Dominic Read More …

In This Very Ring: #WrestlemaniaSZN

Pro wrestling is a weird bastard art, and if you’re unfamiliar with its intricacies, the hordes of people in your social media circles obsessively pontificating about it every Monday night must be a truly confounding experience. Let our very own Dominic Griffin, lifelong wrestling enthusiast, Read More …

March: Book Two is a Selma Remembrance From a Man Who Lived It [Review]

There’s a powerful vignette in the opening pages of March: Book One, the autobiographical graphic novel from Congressman John Lewis, that depicts a moment from the Selma voting rights march, beat for beat presaging an identical moment in Ava DuVernay’s acclaimed film Selma. In the film, as lensed by Read More …

Pop Culture Confession: I Watched All of The Newsroom

I watched all of The Newsroom. All of it. Every single episode. Why, you ask? Isn’t it the general critical opinion that Aaron Sorkin’s days as an important voice in television ended the day he wrote the “Isaac & Ishmael” episode of The West Wing? Hasn’t this Read More …

In This Very Ring: The Best In The World (Wrestler of 2014)

Pro wrestling is a weird bastard art, and if you’re unfamiliar with its intricacies, the hordes of people in your social media circles obsessively pontificating about it every Monday night must be a truly confounding experience. Let our very own Dominic Griffin, lifelong wrestling enthusiast, Read More …

In This Very Ring: Top Ten Matches of 2014

Pro wrestling is a weird bastard art, and if you’re unfamiliar with its intricacies, the hordes of people in your social media circles obsessively pontificating about it every Monday night must be a truly confounding experience. Let our very own Dominic Griffin, lifelong wrestling enthusiast, Read More …

Dark Gable Presents… Top Five & Beyond The Lights (Double Feature Edition)

Diversity and representation have long been a serious issue in the film industry, and 12 Years A Slave winning some Oscars hasn’t exactly changed that. Outside of that prestigious anomaly, people rarely imagine black film to be much more than gangster movies, cookout comedies, and Tyler Perry. Our very own Dominic Read More …