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Coming Attractions, Documentary Film Review, entertainment, Film Festivals, Film Reviews, Sundance Film Festival
Carla Gutierrez Captures Frida in Animated Living Color
With a wicked sense of humor, it's not lost that her career had a few setbacks due to men being king and ruling the world. Kahlo's words have never rung…
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Coming Attractions, Documentary Film Review, entertainment, Film Festivals, Film Reviews, Sundance Film Festival
Skywalkers: A Love Story is Breathtakingly Awesome
Coming from a circus background, Nikolau, is known in her circles as the First Lady of Rooftopping, while Beerkus was considered by millions worldwide as "rooftoping royalty." They met their…
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Coming Attractions, Documentary Film Review, entertainment, Film Festivals, Film Reviews, Sundance Film Festival
Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project is Revelatory and Necessary
What I loved most is her verbal homage to the Black woman and how we can deal with and endure almost anything thrown own way - it's part of our…
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Tyler Perry’s Destiny and Dreams are Woven by Being Maxine’s Baby
Bekele and Ortiz don't shy away from personal moments revealing emotional and physically challenging wounds from an abusive father, breaking that cycle with his own son, while coming to the…
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AFI Film Festival, Coming Attractions, Documentary Film Review, entertainment, Film Festivals, Film Reviews
Roger Ross Williams Eloquently Reveals We Are Stamped From The Beginning
In 1860, Mississippi Senate Davis on the floor of the United States Senate opposed a bill funding education for Black people. To justify this, Davis crafted a made up fairytale…
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Bobi Wine: The People’s President Against All Odds and Regimes
Bobi Wine: The People's President not only documents a rising leader and struggles to rise above the political noise in Uganda, but focuses on a family and wife who maintain…
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Ancestry Prevails Over Greed, Money and Power in Silver Dollar Road
Directed by acclaimed filmmaker Raoul Peck (I Am Not Your Negro), who is not one to shy away from the atrocities experienced by people of color whether it's James Baldwin…
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The Deepest Breath Will Literally Take One’s Breath Away
Cinematographer Tim Cragg and McGann perfectly pair up to gather some of the most exquisitely breathtaking underwater footage capturing why the beauty of the ocean was so rapturous to the…
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Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Takes Tom Cruise to New Heights
peaking of stunts, the train sequence took nearly six months to a year to shoot eating up 50 minutes of the total screen time and the motorcycle hop off the…
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The League Sheds Spotlight on Complicated History of Great American Pastime
Pollard places a spotlight on African American owners like Gus Greenlee and Effa Manley whose presence in this world assist in providing a rich and layered history on the importance…
