Corey Antonio Rose

I agree. The way I grew up with my aunties playing Whoopi Goldberg movies, and it was hit after hit after medium low hit after high hit after all right hit after real good deep cut hit. That's how Kiki's catalog is going to be if we can own digital media, you know, in five or six years. More Kiki Palmer.

Oh, my gosh. I really enjoyed the film. I did not know if I would like it. It's been a minute since a comedy has made me laugh in the theaters.

Right.

I mean, it has all the parts of a good night out at the theater. Oh, look, we're going to get into Mr. Patrick Cage. It's been a minute since I've had a leading man really enthrall me like that on screen. The chemistry between SZA and Kiki was tangible, believable, which was a refreshing surprise to me.

I didn't know if SZA was going to make me lose her, SZA the personality, SZA the musician, in her performance. And... Yeah, it was a really refreshing take, and I loved that it was tackling something that felt real or that is, like, people are still struggling to pay rent.

It was a story that was giving us that at an age that felt accurate to what's really going on, as opposed to this idea that you just leave the house at 21 and everything's great.

I mean, I saw it in the middle of the afternoon on a Saturday, and I'll say the jokes that I didn't laugh at, a lot of people did.

and I had this moment where I was like you know this is a comedy everything is hiked up to this you know nth degree you know we've already seen somebody get blasted through a wall but I think it was a really good representation of like What that deepest fear is when you are like young and hungry and on the come up and you are working and you just trying to make it work.

You don't know what happened to this guy. You just know he ain't make his rent. There are moments in the film, despite all of the, you know, antics that I feel like really take real fears and they hike them up to the nth degree and say, OK, this is what it's going to look like in this film. you know, hilarious context or what have you, but it's, and it hikes the stakes up for the characters too.

I remember that was the moment where I was like, okay. So yeah, I do think if I found it relatable and,

Vanessa Bell Calloway.

Oh, you know, I was never Miss California myself either. But I will say knowing Issa Rae's work and the way that she can really sink her teeth or her productions sink their teeth into the culture of a specific place and really live in that and bring it out. It reminds me of Jocelyn Beow.

Another friend of IBM.

It reminds me of the way she sets her stories in these really specific places. And part of the enjoyment or part of the pleasure factor of enjoying the art is you get to see how the culture of this specific place really does affect the lives and the narratives of these characters. And I found that to be something that was really true with this piece.

Like ick. That's it. Like ick. Yeah.

I mean, it's a gut reaction to something personally unsavory.

Corey, that's not what's happening. I think it's consistent.

You mean like come Valentine's Day, you get her a thesaurus or something? That would be nasty work. I would never do that to somebody.

What does that mean? A bit too much in what way? It was pronounced, it was loud, and it was too long.

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Okay, but some things are icks and some things are red flags. Okay, get into it. You can sit in the ick and like, I don't know, not immediately be like, no. Whereas a red flag, you got to be like, oh, it's time to wrap it up. It's time to go.

I want everyone to want more.

So existent is what gives men the ick.

It's just a preference.