Movie Review: Ammonite
Bridgerton aside, Ammonite is proof that the British do NOT do romance as well as the French. Celine Sciamma’s Portrait of a Lady on Fire …
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Movie Review: The United States vs. Billie Holiday
A very casual jazz/blues fan, I was familiar with the name Billie Holiday, but unfamiliar with her life or songs. I’ll say this at least …
Movie Review: Judas and the Black Messiah
Martin Luther King. Malcolm X. Rosa Parks. James Baldwin. John Lewis. Muhammad Ali. Jim Brown. Bill Russell. Sam Cooke. These are some of the famous …
Movie Review: The Dig
The Dig is in the running for the most British film ever made. An ungenerous person would say it’s a movie where people stare at …
Movie Review: Bad Education
Now my corny lame principal doesn’t seem so awful. Bad Education is perfect viewing for a cynic, like say a sullen teenager. If you were …
Movie Review: Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Now THIS is a worthy Oscar movie, Netflix! I get that you sorta hid Hillbilly Elegy, that’s a swing and a miss. Hey it happens. …
Movie Review: Alex Wheatle
We’re at film 4 of 5 of the Small Axe Anthology. I was hoping to be on the ground floor for a version of The …
Movie Review: Mank
If we’re putting together a list of the best directors of the new millennium, David Fincher is definitely likely on there. Tackling a wide range …
Movie Review: Red, White, and Blue
The 3rd of Steve McQueen’s Small Axe Anthology Series is the best one so far. Unleashing all that pent up Star Wars rage, John Boyega …
Movie Review: Hillbilly Elegy
Hollywood making a movie about Middle America bumkins seems like a doomed idea from the start. This is a movie that hides behind a mediocre …