Posts Tagged ‘Mahershala Ali’
Film Review – Leave the World Behind
The thing about movies where people face a catastrophic event – whether it be nuclear fallout, a zombie apocalypse, an alien invasion, etc. – is that they usually start off with an intriguing premise. Everyday life gets interrupted by mysterious happenings, and as characters realize…
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Film Review – Swan Song
Swan Song (2021) – not to be confused with the Udo Kier-starring vehicle that came out earlier this year – is a methodical and moving sci-fi drama. Writer/director Benjamin Cleary makes his feature-length debut in this examination of love, loss, and identity. The best sci-fi…
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Film Review – Green Book
Race relations have both come a long way and not come anywhere near far enough. There are practices that aren’t common or even legal anymore that used to show open hostilities to African Americans. Whether it was drinking from separate water fountains or not sitting…
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Film Review – Hidden Figures
Hidden Figures tells the true story of three black women in the early days of NASA who rose through the glass ceiling of race and gender to become important people in the U.S. space race. In the politics of 2016, reminders of what it used…
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Film Review – Moonlight
Moonlight (2016) does the thing that many great pictures do: it places us right into the mindset of a character and lets us see the world through their eyes. I’m not a black man, I didn’t grow up in the rough areas of Miami, and…
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Film Review – The Place Beyond The Pines
The Place Beyond The Pines tells the story of…actually, it tells three different stories, none of which pay off at the end. Its director, Derek Cianfrance, previously made the doomed romance Blue Valentine (2010). While I was not as keen as others on that film,…
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