Movie reviews for the day (DWP & PS)

Rico says he went to see Dear White People with his friend Kema (who's black) and then rewatched (having seen it in 1969 when it came out) Putney Swope on his own:

Dear White People is about the lives of four black students at an Ivy League college that converge after controversy breaks out due to the ill-conceived theme of the campus humor magazine's annual Halloween party.
It stars a bunch of kids that Rico never heard of, along with Dennis Haysbert, one of Rico's favorite actors; he was in The Unit, among a lot of others.

Putney Swope is a dark satire in which the token black man on the executive board of an advertising firm is accidentally put in charge. Renaming the business Truth and Soul, Inc., he replaces the tight regime of monied white ad men with his militant brothers. Soon afterwards, however, the power that comes with its position takes its toll on Putney.

Rico says it wasn't quite as funny as he'd remembered (racism never is), but good nonetheless... (And, yes, the director is Robert Downey, Jr.'s father.)