Judas and the Black Messiah
In late ’60s Chicago, 19-year-old car thief William O’Neal (Lakeith Stanfield) turns FBI informant to infiltrate the Black Panther Party and take down its charismatic leader Fred Hampton (Daniel Kaluuya). Right […]
Tag Archives: drama
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
It is tragic how good Chadwick Boseman is in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, a 2020 drama based on the eponymous “Mother of the Blues” (Viola Davis) who became one of […]
Little Women (1994)
Fresh from Thelma & Louise, Susan Sarandon takes on another feminist icon as the March family matriarch in 1994’s shot at Louisa May Alcott’s classic. That Little Women has been filmed […]
#HateFilms: Forrest Gump
Back in 2014, before we had COVID or Trump or Brexit to talk about, the news included the revelation that footballer Michael Owen had only watched 8 movies in his […]
La Haine
Re-released at this depressingly apt point in time, 1995 French drama La Haine (Hate) follows three disaffected youths (Vincent Cassel, Hubert Koundé and Saïd Taghmaoui) over the course of a […]
Beach Rats
19-year-old Frankie (Harris Dickinson) lives with his mum (Kate Hodge), but spends his nights at drug-fulled parties with his ‘wrong crowd’ mates, while secretly arranging late-night hookups with older men […]
Rocks
Set in Hackney but far from hackneyed, Rocks stars Bukky Bakray as a British-Nigerian teenager whose mother makes like a rock and splits. This British drama is pitched somewhere between […]
Antkind – Charlie Kaufman
Self-absorbed film critic B. Rosenberger Rosenberg stumbles on what may be the greatest cinematic acheivement of all time in the apartment of an eldery African American gentleman. But the work […]
Proxima
The cinemas are finally reopening with social distancing measures in place, the most effective being screening French dramas unlikely to draw a crowd. Proxima follows an astronaut (Eva Green) preparing […]
Scarecrow
A pair of drifters (a young Al Pacino and a middle aged Gene Hackman) drift into each other while drifting in the countryside. They decide to drift together for a […]
