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SUNDANCE 2025: RICKY
End credits with many real life-prisoners who have served 15-20 year sentences commenting on their own difficult journey is a full circle moment reminds us all that just because you've…
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Coming Attractions, Documentary Film Review, entertainment, Film Festivals, Film Reviews, Sundance Film Festival
SUNDANCE: THIRD ACT
It ain't over 'til it's over and Third Act makes one appreciate life and our loved ones one frame, one trip, one hug, one meal and one moment at at…
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SUNDANCE: SLY LIVES! AKA The Burden of Black Genius
Sly and The Family Stone are one of the many artists that colored the soundtrack to my adolescence with hits like “It’s A Family Affair,” “Everyday People,” “Hot Fun in…
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André Holland Gives Expert Peformance Exhibiting Forgiveness
"Exhibiting Forgiveness" is a gift, mostly because this film will leave you raw and exhilarated that in the pain of grief comes forgiveness on many levels.
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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
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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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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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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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…
