All great stories are reliant on great characters. The Best Man is filled with interesting personalities, who have known each other for years and have layered interpersonal dynamics. Although the story itself takes place over the span of a single weekend, the script does an excellent job of relaying the events that influenced each character’s actions and behavior patterns.

My homeboys Squid, Muscle, and Breeze spend so much time at my place, I’m about to start charging them for rent. The other day we went to the theatre as a group to watch Venom 2: Let There Be Carnage. Why did I think they would go home after the movie? In typical fashion, they all ended up in my living room eating pizza. As we were sitting around talking, Breeze chimed in with “The guy who played Cletus Kasady is a pretty good actor. What’s his name?” This sent Muscle into a fit; he considers

DMX’s performance in Belly was the best film debut ever by a musician turned actor. Last week, I was sitting in my living room with my homeboys Squid, Muscle, and Breeze watching the newest version of The Suicide Squad on Amazon Prime, when Squid posed an interesting question. “Will Smith was in the 2016 version of this movie,” he said. “Why isn’t he in this one?” We all traded theories back and forth about why Will wasn’t in this year’s release, but decided none of us knew the right answer an

Set It Off is my choice for the most underrated action film of all-time. I’ve never been a big fan of super hero movies. However, when I met my homeboy Squid back in third grade, he was wearing a Spider-Man t-shirt. Needless to say, comic books and movies about super heroes have always been Squid’s forte. Last Sunday, he was helping me get set up to watch the Chicago Bears game before the other guys arrived when I realized I was out of ice. With the amount of soda and beers that the guys drink

Why A Bronx Tale is my favorite movie ever set in New York City Last Thursday, I was sitting in my living room with a group of friends watching Brooklyn Nine-Nine, when my homeboy, Squid, posed the question “What’s your favorite TV show based in New York City?” Of course the usual names were tossed around by everyone in the room. Shows like Sex and the City, Seinfeld, Living Single, and NYPD Blue all made the list. On the next commercial break, Squid posed another intriguing question, “What’s y

Vasyl Lomachenko has obsessed over a chance to get back in the ring with Teofimo Lopez. Ever since he lost the showdown between the two of them for the undisputed lightweight championship of the world, Lomachenko has vowed to get revenge. In fact, he is so preoccupied with avenging his loss, that he chose his next opponent Masayoshi Nakatani, simply because he’d gone the distance with Lopez before. The stated reasoning was that an impressive defeat of Nakatani would show the world that his skill

During its heyday, Carthage was one of the most important empires in the Mediterranean world. Not only was it economically powerful and heavily involved in trade, but its military prowess was the stuff of legend. The renowned general Hannibal Barca hailed from the Carthaginian Empire. Unfortunately, most high school students will remember Carthage for losing the Punic Wars and eventually being absorbed into the Roman Empire. “To the victor go the spoils… ” Such is the tale of the great Sonny Li

Just last month, the boxing world lost a true icon, “Marvelous” Marvin Hagler. While Hagler will always be remembered as one of the fiercest middleweights of his era and a man whose approach to the sport exemplified everything to be desired in a fighter, there’s an aspect of his legacy that’s often overlooked. He hailed from Brockton, MA, a city of less than 100,000 located less than an hour from Boston. Over the years, the city has produced great talent and made a considerable contribution to

The New York Knicks are a .500 team on the verge of an NBA playoff birth. This time last year, that statement would have generated laughter. Now, under the guidance of coach Tom Thibodeau, the dream of returning to the playoffs for the first time since 2013 looks like an imminent reality. Outside of the new head coach, the man most responsible for the Knicks resurgence is 6’8″ power forward Julius Randle. Besides being a powerfully built force capable of banging bodies inside the paint, Randle

As a child, the worst part of freezing cold Chicago winters was the fact that we were stuck in the house. Unable to go to the courts to shoot hoops or even ride our bikes outside, my brother Marcus and I instead chose to pass time by playing hand after hand of Gin Rummy. One day when school was canceled due to a blizzard, my mother gave us each a dollar before she headed out the door to work. She told us that we could take a trip to the bodega down the street and get something for ourselves as