An intriguing variation on Spike lee’s BlacKKKlansman is this passionate, evocative true-life account bookended by a PBS special over three decades ago. Life that film there’s also an eerie epilogue that makes for timely provocation. Judas and the Black Messiah stars Daniel Kaluuya and LaKeith Stanfield (both in Jordan Peele’s breakout hit Get Out) and […]
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The Mauritanian
Mauritania is located on the West coast of Africa. It is the homeland of The Mauritanian the subject of a film that explores the captives at the Guantanamo Bay military detention camp at the southern shore of Cuba. The film follows Mohamedou Ould Salahi (Rahim) a captive of the U.S. government who languishes in Guantanamo […]
Land
Robin Wright, in her feature directorial debut, plays Edee, a woman suffering a great personal loss who has come to the end of her rope. She has a sister whom she seems to be close to and is seeing a therapist, but her grief is overwhelming. Without telling her sister, she makes an extreme decision […]
Minari
Lee Isaac Chung’s ode to his childhood days in 1980s Arkansas takes its name from a plant with a peppery root and captures an immigrant experience with delicate poignancy. In Minari the Korean-American Yi clan relocate from California (where parents separated baby chicks by gender) to the boondocks of the Ozarks. Patriarch Jacob (Steven Yeun […]
The Little Things
A Glum, if moody throwback to 1990s police procedurals is more about the psychological than whodunit aspects. Writer/director John Lee Hancock’s The Little Things bristles with obsession and eccentricity along with a dominant virility. Hancock gets to have three Oscar winners as his principals Denzel Washington (as haunted cop ‘Deke’). Rami Malek as younger, Wiry […]