Carla Renata
I love, love love movies, watching them and discussing them...thus the birth of The Curvy Film Critic!!! If you missed my posts here you can also catch them at www.OnAirWithTonySweet.com and AAFCA.com. Be on the lookout for my film review new show on BHL Online - Black Tomatoes owned by E! Bews Correspondent Maria Menounos premiering June 2017. If you like what you read please shout me out via #thecurvycritic and as always, thanks for supporting a sista' and see you on the red carpet!
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Misbehaviour Mixes Womens Liberation with Miss World
bubbling on the outside was the Womens liberation movement. Women were exhausted with being disrespected in life, at home and in the workplace. Misbehaviour marries these two events is the…
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Secret Society of Second Born Royals Fires on All Cylinders
Let me just say Director Ana Mastro gave me vibes of Princess Diaries meets Goonies meets The Avengers. One of the thing Is love most about this film is that…
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Kajillionaire is a Dark Dramedy with Mega Messages for Society
Kajillionaire has a few pacing issues mid-way, but overall is a great reminder that all human beings have one life to live. Do you want to make a difference, become…
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Star-Studded Blackbird Tackles Death and Family Fragility
Blackbird's leading lady Susan Sarandon's Lilly adequately exudes the meaning of its title. A Blackbird is a spiritual animal, extremely smart and intelligent repenting peace, transformation, freedom and power. Angels often…
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Janelle Monae and Gabourey Sidibe Save Hard to Digest Antebellum
I wholeheartedly understand what Bush and Renz were going for, but watching yet another Black body get branded, raped, hung, called a savage, asked to cook, entertain (sing a 'negro…
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Naomi Rapace Permeates with Total Command in The Secrets We Keep
Star and Executive Producer, Rapace, shot to international stardom in the title role of the original The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, delivers a spellbound performance as Maja begging the…
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Reid Miller is Stupendously, Heartbreaking in Good Joe Bell
With a plethora of producers including Jake Gyllenhaal and Drew Brees and based on a true story, Good Joe Bell left my heart tattered and eyeswelling up into a unsuspecting ugly cry…
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Concrete Cowboys is Charming Urban Western Coming of Age Tale
Idris Elba does what he does best...be a man. A man with wrapped up in fear, love, hope and quiet integrity. Jharrel Jerome is stellar and Caleb McLaughlin proves his…
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David Oyelowo Taps into Family and Fantasy with The Water Man Debut
As a filmmaker, Oyelowo masterfully captures the emotional struggles that inhabits a family and the impending loss of a loved one through child’s view of the world and heart. Beautifully…
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Climate Change is in Good Hands As Long As Greta Thunberg Exists
But, being on the autism spectrum, ostracized in school by classmates and staff, as well as, grown middle age men putting in their two cents being equally unkind, this unique…
