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Coming Attractions, Documentary Film Review, entertainment, Film Festivals, Film Reviews, Sundance Film Festival
Sundance ’19: Lorena on Amazon Prime Sheds New Light on Historic Case
There is not a man alive who is not at least a little familiar with the Lorena Bobbit case. For them, it is literally their worst nightmare. Which is exactly…
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Family Style Clue Mystery Dominates Everybody Knows
Originally titled Todos lo Saben and written/directed by Asghar Farhadi, Farhadi has specialized in long-buried family secrets, grudges and jealousies. His writing and direction are precise, each new revelation fitting together…
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Close and Pryce are Masterful in The Wife
Ghostwriting is done all the time. In order to do so, you literally have to have no attachment or ego to the work you are crafting. That task becomes rather…
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Sundance ‘19: The Last Black Man in San Francisco Charming Gentrification Tale
Jimmie Fails is a resident of San Francisco whose major mode of transportation is via skateboard. Jimmie is not just any resident of the Bay Area, He’s a third generation…
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Sundance ’19: Ine Marie Wilmann is Spectacular as Sonja The White Swan
Growing up in the midwest, my winters were filled with ice-skating in Forest Park on Sundays. My cousin and I would pretend we were competing in the pairs division of…
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AFI Film Festival, Coming Attractions, Documentary Film Review, entertainment, Film Reviews, Sundance Film Festival
Toni Morrison Doc Insightful and Inspiring
Howard University was my introduction to a few things. Alpha Kappa Alpha was founded on that campus and Toni Morrison (a fellow Bison) would become my literary guru. Toni’s writing’s…
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Coming Attractions, Documentary Film Review, entertainment, Film Festivals, Film Reviews, Sundance Film Festival
Sundance ’19: Leaving Neverland Unearths MJ Sexual Allegations
Finding Neverland is painful to watch for a variety of reasons and there are some out there who for yet another ride around the tabloid merry-go-round will find this entertaining…
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Gina Rodriguez Scorches in Miss Bala
Having been a former beauty pageant contestant (pick your jaws up off the floor now), I was all over this film like cheap suit. Convinced I was about to screen…
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Sundance 2019: Clemency is a Raw, Emotional Look at Death Row
Chononye Chuckwu perfectly encapsulates and humanizes lawyers, criminals and prison staff in this heart stopping drama. This is by far a career best for the legendary Alfre Woodard. The list…
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Black Dahlia Revisited through Fauna Hodel in TNT’S I AM THE NIGHT
If you are a native of Los Angeles and driven down Franklin Street, you have more than likely driven past the home of one of the city’s most famous, mysterious…
