Minding the gap: of bad fathers and of boys to men

Minding the Gap: Of Bad Fathers and of Boys to Men

ByRicardo Paris

Directed by Bing Liu, and a nominee at this year’s Academy Awards for Best Documentary Feature, Minding the Gap is a film that documents the tumultuous coming of age of three young men from Rockford, Illinois: Keire Johnson, Zack Mulligan, and Bing Liu himself – all three of them skateboarders. It is Liu’s first feature…

Black sheep: trapped into making friends with monsters

Black Sheep: Trapped Into Making Friends With Monsters

ByRicardo Paris

How does the saying go? “The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist.” In the same spirit of trickery, some would have you believe, of racism, not that it doesn’t exist, but that it is this one thing, and one thing alone – a self-explanatory concept of sorts, that…