Posts Tagged ‘John Ridley’
Film Review – Ben-Hur (2016)
The story of Ben-Hur (2016) has been told many times, including two silent films and an animated direct-to-dvd release. But it was the 1959 iteration that stands as a classic in popular culture. That was a massive production: a three and a half hour epic…
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SIFF Film Review – Jimi: All Is by My Side
I hate the 1960s. (Although I was born in 1968, so I’m going to give that year a pass.) I hate biopics, especially ones about musicians. I also hate listening to oldies music stations – including ones that play the music from my teen years,…
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Film Review – 12 Years A Slave
In school, we learned about slavery in our U.S. History class. We read the textbooks, we wrote reports, and we gave presentations on it. Besides perhaps the Holocaust, it is one of the worst crimes against humanity in recorded history, and it happened in this…
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