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Based on the memoir of policeman Ron Stallworth, Spike Lee has written and directed one of the most important films of the year. It is billed as a comedy, but its purpose, as evident by the jarring ending that consists of extended shots of the events at Charlottesville, Virginia in 2017, is very serious. …
The story of how after the Civil War whites used a clause in the 13th Amendment to transform slaves into criminals, a legacy that we are still fighting.
Prepare for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day by going to see this wonderful movie. Click the movie’s title to read my entire review.
On an Ivy League campus blacks & whites engage in racial politics; a black female uses her radio program to attack the belief in a post-racial society. A white-sponsored black-face party proves her point.
I have just finished reading Joy-Ann Reid’s new book MEDGAR & MYRLIE: Medgar Evers and the Love Story That Awakened America–and can highly recommend it. I had known of the martyred NAACP leader even before I joined the Mississippi Freedom Summer Project way back in 1964. The three films in which he is portrayed greatly enhanced my …
David & Nathan Zellner have chosen an unusual group of a species that may exist only in our imaginations, a family of Sasquatches. We usually think of them as a single creature, often calling them Big Foot, but the filmmakers focus upon a family—the two parents and two male offspring. We follow their ups and …
Director Michael Mohel combines horror with religion in this tale of twisted religious fanaticism joined with male chauvinism. It is so bloody that potential viewers need to steel themselves as the climax looms ahead. Postulant nun Cecilia ( Sydney Sweeney), just off the plane at Rome, is delayed by two leering customs officers who state …
A funny & yet serious remake of the Christ Story, Blacks portraying Jews & whites the oppressive Romans, thus tying the story to racism.
The true story of 2 Syrian refugee sisters, one of whom became an Olympic swiimer & the other who joined a refugee aiding agency.
The personal story of Robert Oppenheimer from his student days to hi days at Los Alamos to the Manhattan Project to the revocation of his security clearance.