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Coming Attractions, Documentary Film Review, entertainment, Film Festivals, Film Reviews, Sundance Film Festival
20 Days at Mariupol is an In Your Face Document of Ukraninan War
Wars don't start with explosions. They start with silence. No knows this better than the people of Ukraine. Their lives have been uprooted and blown apart the same way 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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Coming Attractions, Documentary Film Review, entertainment, Film Festivals, Film Reviews, Sundance Film Festival
The Eternal Memory Will Haunt Your Spirit and Educate Your Soul
Your heart will sing and shatter in a zillion pieces all at once, which a total testament to the filmmaker and her subjects. Witnessing the grief Augusto has for his…
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Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields Examines a Misjudged and Misguided Life
Honest and incisive, Pretty Baby critiques a toxic culture that perpetuates misogyny and is complicit in the sexualization and objectification of young girls, while sharing how Brooke Shields discovered and…
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Algee Smith and Sierra Capri Scorch in Young. Wild. Free.
What Banks mostly succeeds in is crafting a film that doesn't waste time getting to the heart of the matter. From the first frame to the last, the suspenseful nature…
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All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt is a Cinematic Generational Journey of Sound
Restrained dialogue coupled with subtle and powerful performances from Sheila Atim, Moses Ingram and Zainab Jah, Jackson assists in employing the power of touch to communicate what evades spoken language.…
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Sundance 23: Theater Camp is Hysterical, Laugh Out Loud, Good Clean Fun
Theater Camp is fluffy, fun and anyone who has ever been in a summer camp, theatre workshop or rehearsal for a show will be totally enthralled while being taken on…
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Sundance 23: Invisible Beauty Bethann Hardison Revolutionized Fashion
Invisible Beauty is a tribute to an Black woman who made such seismic shifts that we should never forget her name or her contributions to equality in the fashion industry…
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Teyana Taylor Shines as Impoverished Mom in A Thousand and One
A Thousand And One is an elegant ode to the terribly beautiful power of family as an anchor in an ever-changing world, making us into who we are in ways…
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The Stroll Breaks Down Transgressions of Trans Life on the Streets of NYC
For those unfamiliar with gentrification, sex workers or how it feels to be targeted by law enforcement simply based on what one looks like they may become possibly become engaged…