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Jonita Davis

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Jonita Davis is a freelance film and television critic who writes for various outlets, including Black Girl Nerds, The Fix, The Washington Post, Syfy Wire, and so many others. Davis holds a masters degree in English from Purdue University, where she also lectures occasionally. Those academic skills and her experience as a mother, and pop culture fan are used in studying and writing about television and film through the lens of culture, race, gender, and family. You can see some of Jonita Davis's work at www.jonitadavis.com/clips.

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Arcades & Love Songs: The Ballad of Walter Day (2025) “Arcades and Love Songs offers a look into the life of a man pivoting to the career of his dreams after retiring from his “dream job.” It normalizes following your dream and also channeling heartache into the arts. ” – The Black Cape (Medium) Mar 26, 2025 Full Review Disposable Humanity (2025) “I know that Disposable Humanity is about the hidden story of how the Nazis tortured, and killed the disabled people as a precursor to the Holocaust. Watching it from Trump’s America lends the documentary a horror edge that only comes from current events. ” – The Black Cape (Medium) Mar 7, 2025 Full Review Silent Trees (2024) “Silent Trees is a “must-watch” documentary for every American. We need to be reminded that the wars in Eastern Europe are being fought with human casualties. Like 16-year Rona’s pregnant mother, who froze to death while the family waited for asylum” – The Black Cape (Medium) Mar 7, 2025 Full Review Goodbye Horses: The Many Lives of Q Lazzarus (2024) “The film takes us through Diane “Q Lazarus” Luckey’s addiction, homelessness, and even a stint as a sex worker. The writer/singer is candid about her journey, which is only enhanced by her enchanting storytelling.” – The Black Cape (Medium) Mar 7, 2025 Full Review Step Back, Doors Closing (2024) 100% “If there were a genre for Step Back, Doors Closing, a new film from writer/director Carter Ward, it would be the same genre as the Meg Ryan and Diane Keaton romance comedies of the late 80s and 90s. ” – The Black Cape (Medium) Feb 25, 2025 Full Review Pay Dirt: The Story of Supercross (2025) “Pay Dirt strolls through the epic injuries, rivalries, and so much more that has defined the sport, using news footage, interviews, and live commentary from the racers — some of whom still carry the same animosity that they had on the dirt track.” – The Black Cape (Medium) Jan 12, 2025 Full Review Hazard (2025) 90% “Hazard is a love story. One that goes beyond Will and Sara. Will comes to terms with what the drugs are doing to his community and his home. ” – The Black Cape (Medium) Jan 12, 2025 Full Review Nurse Unseen (2023) “ Sadness and loss underscore the movie’s celebration of the Filipino women and their families who sacrificed so much over the years to come to the US and work in the hospitals here.” – The Black Cape (Medium) Nov 20, 2024 Full Review Afterwar (2024) “Afterwar is important because it turns the camera on at the moment when the news cycle turns away. It proves that the city can rebuild and “come back” from the ravages of the war, but the people still carry its scars, especially the children ” – The Black Cape (Medium) Nov 19, 2024 Full Review Trust in Love (2024) “The film Trust in Love attempts to catalog the most issues in an effort to follow a family going through the end of a longtime marriage. The issues do end up being a lot for one plot to handle. ” – The Black Cape (Medium) Oct 9, 2024 Full Review Don't Fall in Love with Yourself (2022) “The documentary is an unexpected education in the history of a music genre that thrived off of innovation and experimentation. ” – The Black Cape (Medium) Oct 9, 2024 Full Review Heightened (2023) “'Heightened' dives into the world from the purview of a person who has been told over and over again that she is wrong and broken. It follows Nora as she heals. Along the way, it spotlights the dysfunction that exists in the "normal" people around her.” – The Black Cape (Medium) Oct 2, 2024 Full Review What a Feeling (2024) “'What a Feeling' brings a fresh and vital perspective to a trope that’s as old as film itself. And she does it without sacrificing the story, the romance, and the comedy.” – The Black Cape (Medium) Oct 2, 2024 Full Review Wild Eyed and Wicked (2023) 80% “This film is the first time that I've seen generational trauma literally fought in a medieval fashion. The ultimate message is that the family must first acknowledge the trauma, and then face it bravely before it can be defeated.” – The Black Cape Sep 26, 2024 Full Review The Mouse Trap (2024) “'Mouse Trap' is meant to resemble those films only enough to entertain in the moment. This means seeing things like a sudden teleportation power as the silly camp feature it’s supposed to be.” – The Black Cape (Medium) Aug 15, 2024 Full Review Don't Turn Your Back on Friday Night (2023) “ 'Don't Turn Your Back On Friday Night' serves double duty in chronicling an underground rockstar’s decades-long career while exposing him to a new audience.” – The Black Cape (Medium) Aug 15, 2024 Full Review Crescent City (2024) 14% “In Crescent City, no one is who they say they are and thus can’t be trusted. The storyline twists until it becomes evident that no one is a “good cop.” Everyone has a dirty little secret. What matters is whose secret is more deadly than the others.” – The Black Cape (Medium) Aug 15, 2024 Full Review Minnesota Mean (2023) “Minnesota Mean is a documentary that follows a women’s roller derby team on their road to a championship after years of struggle. Along the way, the audience is treated to the realities of roller derby life on and off the skates.” – The Black Cape (Medium) Jul 3, 2024 Full Review Blackwater Lane (2024) 11% “Blackwater Lane is like a classic, Gothic horror. It opens with all the horror elements, but in the last half, the film switches up. There's a harsh reality check. It becomes a whodunit that questions societal issues with mental illness and classism.” – The Black Cape (Medium) Jun 24, 2024 Full Review Who Is Stan Smith? (2022) 100% “In humanizing the name, director Lee introduces a new generation to an ally whose humble place in Black history needs to be remembered.” – The Black Cape (Medium) Apr 8, 2024 Full Review Transition (2023) 100% “In a world at war with itself, how important is it to know what the next person has in their pants? That’s the most basic question, under a pile of complex conversations in the documentary Transition. ” – The Black Cape (Medium) Mar 18, 2024 Full Review Toll (2023) 100% “'Toll' criticizes the hypocritical Christian urge to shine a spotlight on the gay community, while larger, more menacing sins are allowed to thrive in the shadows. ” – The Black Cape (Medium) Mar 12, 2024 Full Review Dandelions (2024) “In Dandelions, Basil Mironer unearths a potentially devastating family secret via social media. The film follows the man as he explores the secrets, gathers facts, and later pulls the family together for what promises to be an explosive conversation.” – The Black Cape (Medium) Feb 15, 2024 Full Review Float (2023) 46% “Float disrupts the romance formula in all the best ways to create a romance that everyone can relate to.” – The Black Cape (Medium) Feb 9, 2024 Full Review Petro (2023) “The eye-opening film takes a deep dive into the life of a Colombian Presidential candidate while also chronicling Colombian political history. The parallels between Colombia and the US are hard to ignore. In fact, some of the leaders are even similar.” – The Black Cape (Medium) Jan 29, 2024 Full Review
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