Jasneet Singh is a writer who finally has a platform to indulge in long rants about small moments on TV and film in overwhelming detail. With a literature background, she is drawn to the narrative ...

Tyler Perry’s Straw hinges on an intense and power-packed performance from Taraji P. Henson. Through her lead character, Janiyah, we get a glimpse of what it feels like to not be seen or heard. Straw ...

The prolific creator’s latest is a typically melodramatic yet potent and relevant depiction of systemic miseries that lead to a hard-luck heroine’s police standoff. It’s overloaded with plot ...

“As bad as it is, there’s always someone doin’ it worse!” That’s just one of the pearls of wisdom dropped in Straw (now streaming on Netflix), an effectively tense action-melodrama set during a ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Chip Bergmann/Perry Well Films 2/Courtesy Netflix Taraji P. Henson is about to have a really bad day in Tyler Perry's 'Straw' “As ...

Even diehard fans of the tireless Tyler Perry sometimes wish he'd slow down a bit to focus on quality over quantity. But Netflix feature "Straw" has a cultural pulse-taking urgency that lifts it above ...