Potential blockbuster Jungle Cruise is fired by the scrappy relationship between Frank and Lily (Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt), an ancient mystery, time travel, a loveable jaguar and a snapshot parade of Amazonian culture and history, dating back to the arrival of Spain's Conquistadors. There's a …
Timely and Powerful Indigenous Films, Celebrating Geraldine Chaplin, Royal Wedding Redux and Tantoo Cardinal!
Geraldine Chaplin and Jackie Ludueña Koslovitch in Holy Beasts By Anne Brodie Canada, drop everything and see Beans in theatres. This heart-tugging drama about a little girl caught up in a vicious cycle of racism and struggle is all too true. Images from July to September 1990, in Oka, …
Gangs, Saints, Revolting Babies, Teen Angst and Hysterical Motherland!
Sundance Now's Motherland By Anne Brodie Steven Soderberg's noir period gang comedy No Sudden Move on Crave owes a huge debt to Noah Hawley's Fargo Season 4. Set amidst Black and Italian gangsters in the fifties, it's shot similarly with similar funky period music given a cool update, …
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Finally, Nomadland Lands, and Some Other Films and Streaming Opps.
Frances McDormand in Chloe Zhao's Nomadland By Anne Brodie Nomadland on Disney+ is hard to talk about without disturbing its profundities. Since seeing the film last fall, and many times since, I've not looked forward to writing a review. It is a shame to reduce this incredible artistic …
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Deborah Ayorinde and Ashley Thomas on the Horrors of Racism in Amazon Prime’s anthology Them
Deborah Ayorinde, Melody Hurd, Shahadi Wright Joseph and Ashley Thomas in Them on Amazon Prime How would it feel as a Black family moving into an all white LA suburb in the fifties? Amazon Prime's limited hate anthology Them, from Little Marvin, imagines a world of horror as experienced by the …