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Coming Attractions, entertainment, Film Festivals, Film Reviews, Focus Features, Sundance Film Festival
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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Coming Attractions, Documentary Film Review, entertainment, Film Festivals, Film Reviews, Sundance Film Festival
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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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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The Persian Version Is a Generational Story Bathed in Love and Light
Keshavarz massively succeeds mixing past with present, while sprinkling events with humor drawing you into a family that is all too familiar yet completely different. In addition, she illustrates how…
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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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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: 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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Coming Attractions, Documentary Film Review, entertainment, Film Festivals, Film Reviews, Sundance Film Festival
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…
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Sundance 23: Jonathan Majors in Magnificent in Magazine Dreams
Magazine Dreams is a provocative, dark disturbing film that pulls no punches in portraying the most physically and emotionally painful moments of mental illness in it most fragile state.
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Sometimes I Think About Dying Raises Awareness on Loneliness
Director Rachel Lambert crafts a cinematic kaleidoscope for this delicate tale of love for the socially awkward and emotionally challenged. Led by its producer and leading lady, Daisy Ridley spends…
