By Anne Brodie Netflix's highly anticipated Marilyn Monroe film Blonde, based on Joyce Carol Oates' fictional biography of Norma Jean Baker and Marilyn Monroe takes an alternate look at the superstar who died too young. Norma Jean's ascent from poverty and abuse to one of the most famous women in …
Tyler Perry’s TIFF Hit A Jazzman’s Blues, Stars Broadway’s Joshua Boone and Solea Pfieffer.
The sizzling chemistry between Joshua Boone and Solea Pfeiffer in Tyler Perry's A Jazzman's Blues is an oasis of love and hope in the 30s south. As Blacks are denied basic human rights, Bayou (Boone) and Leanne (Pfieffer) find love, pleasure, and comfort in their tortured secret romance. Leanne …
Marilyn and Sidney, Canada’s Oscar Entry Lead This Week’s Screen Pix.
By Anne Brodie The much anticipated Netflix film Blonde, based on Joyce Carol Oates' fictional take on Norma Jean Baker / Marilyn Monroe debuts Sept. 28. Oates' novel is shocking, lurid, and sex-obsessed, as is Andrew Dominik's nearly three-hour opus. It posits that Norma Jean was victimized from …
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Canada’s Poignant Oscar Entry Eternal Spring From Jason Loftus and Daxiong.
Documentarian Jason Loftus and artist /protester Daxiong pay a remarkable film tribute to the brave souls who carried out the 2002 hijacking of Chinese state TV to counter China's crackdown on the spiritual practice of Falun Gong. Daxiong, a renowned commercial artist was arrested, but unlike his …
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Polymath Artist Tyler Perry Uncovers the Jim Crow American South, 1935 in His Powerful Romantic Drama A Jazzman’s Blues.
Tyler Perry's A Jazzman's Blues, while not a true story, is based on Black experiences in the racist American Southern USA not so very long ago. A conversation with the late playwright August Wilson inspired him to start writing this story, a remarkable, deeply moving achievement, the story of …