Author: Carolyn Hinds

I am a Freelance Film Critic, Journalist and Podcaster - and avid live tweeter. Member of the African American Film Critics Association (AAFCA), my published work can be found on ButWhyThoPodcast, The Beat, Observer, and many other sites. As a critic, I believe my personal experiences and outlook on life, give readers and listeners a different perspective they can appreciate, and help them to see things in a new light. I am the proud host of Beyond The Romance Drama Podcast - a podcast dedicated to discussing Korean and other Asian dramas, the co-host of So Here's What Happened! Podcast (@SHWH_Pod), and the weekly science fiction film and TV live tweet event #SaturdayNightSciFi.

Directed by Abi Damaris Corbin and co-written with Kwame Kwei-Armah, 892, is a dramatic feature film starring John Boyega as Brian Easley, a veteran of the U.S. Marines who on one sunny day in July 2017, walks into a bank, passes a note to the teller, beginning a series of events that many will never forget, and many more never even knew took place. In this episode of Carolyn Talks…, I discuss 892, which had its world premiere at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival, with Valerie Complex, film critic and associate editor at Deadline Set during that fateful day,  the…

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In this episode of Beyond The Romance, I’m joined by my friends and fellow drama fans Joycelyn and Josephine, to chat about the Korean supernatural drama Hellbound, directed by Yeon Sang-ho (Train to Busan, Peninsula), and co-written with Choi Kyu-seok. Based on their web-comic of the same name, Hellbound is a drama that goes that explores how religion, religious fanaticism, loneliness and faith are all intertwined when people who can’t find their own direction and purpose in life, are exploited by through the use of the media by those who seek to control others. Starring Yoo A-in as Jung Jin-soo,…

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