By now there is much talk about playwright August Wilson’s dramatic film adaptation of Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom. The Netflix film adaptation …
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What a nice surprise. David E. Talbert, a playwright (Love in the Nick of Tyme) turned filmmaker (First Sunday), lets his musicality…
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Upon hearing the premise of this film, involving an 86-year-old Jewish Holocaust survivor and a 12-year-old Senegalese immigrant, you might think you’re…
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Fiery rhetoric. Conflicting politics. Angry activists. Heated demonstrations. Violent police clashes. Government subterfuge. Duplicitous judges. The anti-war uproar of the late ‘60s…
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Move over Molly. You’ve got competition! Folks in New Orleans are downing potent capsules dubbed Power that can give them superpowers. What’s…
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Dull suspense/thrillers are most often mired in formula. For example: Woman in distress. Man stalks her. Confrontations and narrow escapes. Big do-or-die…