Black Girl Watching
Brooke ObieFilm, TV and Culture critique through a Black feminist lens, from the pen of Brooke Obie.
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The Black Girl Revenge Movie We Need Right Now
Watch now (53 mins) | PODCAST: Filmmaker Ellie Foumbi on her debut film “Our Father the Devil”
TW: rape
‘Lanterns’ Shows How Boy Moms Make Monsters
****Spoilers for season one of Lanterns ****
Kendall Francis, a young Black women LSU college student, accused football player Damien Shanklin of raping her in 2025. LSU found him “responsible for forcible rape” and suspended him for a yea...
‘Primetime’ Targets the Wrong Villains, ‘Digger’ Argues That Art Still Matters, ‘Verity’ Proves Dakota Johnson Is Trolling Us
Trigger Warning: commentary on pedophilia, rape.
Primetime Targets the Wrong Villains
Imagine a country where genocide, rape and enslavement of children are so foundational that 250 years later, it still has a president that’s openly...
‘Your Mother, Your Mother, Your Mother’ Is About Your Dad
Mild spoilers for Your Mother, Your Mother, Your Mother
How many mothers is Your Mother, Your Mother, Your Mother about? If you guessed zero, you would be correct! This film is about Your Dad and how hard he has it.
Th...
The Best (and the Rest) of TIFF 2026
Thanks to Rotten Tomatoes’ Critics Grant program, this was my third year of #BGWatTIFF (Black Girl Watching at the Toronto International Film Festival), my favorite fest of all the fests! I don’t know if it’s just Toronto in early fall, whi...
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Black Girl Watching is a film/TV & culture critique platform analyzing the latest in culture through a Black feminist lens by Brooke Obie. Brooke is an award-winning film critic, filmmaker, screenwriter and author of BOOK OF ADDIS.
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