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 »
THE LEGEND OF TARZAN
Credit where it’s due. THE LEGEND OF TARZAN doesn’t get everything wrong. For one, It has the virtue of addressing why a perfectly capable, perfectly intelligent black man with a Ph.D., George Washington Harris (Samuel L. Jackson as an actual historical character) needs a white man, that would be Lord Greystoke aka Tarzan (Alexander Skarsgård)… Read More »
Chiwetel Ejiofor Experiences 12 YEARS A SLAVE
12 YEARS A SLAVE is based on the shocking true story of Solomon Northup, a musician and free man of color with a wife and two children who lived in New York in the first half of the 19th century. He was sold into slavery, where he languished for over a decade, and, against all… Read More »