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ONE NIGHT IN MIAMI…

December 31, 2020 By Leave a Comment

ONE NIGHT IN MIAMI…

The story of ONE NIGHT IN MIAMI was inspired by actual events, which leaves plenty of room for speculation about what Malcolm X, Cassius Clay (shortly to become Muhammad Ali), James Brown, and Sam Cooke talked about in that motel room on February 25, 1964. If it was less the dialectic presented here, what each… Read More »

Tagged With: civil right, economic freedom, Nation of Islam, racial equality, racism

HARRIET

October 28, 2019 By Leave a Comment

HARRIET

HARRIET achieves the proper, and richly deserved, tone of reverence for its subject, Harriet Tubman. That is, alas, its greatest failing. The astonishing life of one of the most courageous Americans who has ever lived is told in a series of set pieces, vignettes with all drama sapped from them as they take on the… Read More »

Tagged With: 19th century, based on a true story, Philadelpha, racism, slavery, underground railway

LUCE

August 11, 2019 By Leave a Comment

LUCE

LUCE is less a film than a political dialectic on race and class in these United States, and a brilliant, exquisitely performed one at that. Told with a deliberate, sometimes maddening ambiguity, it challenges the audience at every turn about where the truth lies, and the limits of familial loyalty. By the end, not every… Read More »

Tagged With: child soldier, classism, high school, lying, racism, stage to screen, truth

PLUS ONE

June 20, 2019 By Leave a Comment

PLUS ONE

Ben (Jack Quaid) and Alice (Maya Erskine) have reached that awkward age. Nearing thirty and still single, their lives have become a mad whirl of watching their friends and family pair up for the long haul with wedding vows, corny toasts, and too much champagne. Unable to further bear the stigma of being seated at… Read More »

Tagged With: plus one, romance, wedding speech, weddings

SPIDER-MAN: HOMECOMING

July 8, 2017 By Leave a Comment

SPIDER-MAN: HOMECOMING

Leaving aside what might otherwise be a richly nuanced discussion of why we need another Spider-man reboot so soon, it is with delight and relief that I report its success.  Tom Holland takes on the red spandex and the ironic wisecracks as Peter Parker, the brilliant high-school kid whose bite from a radioactive spider has… Read More »

Tagged With: high school crush, Marvel Universe, Marxism, MCU, reboot, Spiderman, Staten Island Ferry

BASIC

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

The first words we hear Tom Hardy say in BASIC is in a conversation this ex-Army and currently DEA agent in Panama is having with a colleague, the gist of which is that if he doesn’t have the trust of those around him, he can’t function. Those are words that will figure greatly in the… Read More »

Tagged With: Army Ranger, drugs, James McTiernan, John Travolta, jungle, military, Panama

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