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The late, great playwright August Wilson wrote ten plays about the black experience in America known as The Century Cycle and it’s wonderful to see screen adaptations of his work now being [...]

The activist author Terry Tempest Williams argued that the greatest sin women commit is in their failure to support each other. That is the sin that Queen Elizabeth commits throughout the fourth [...]

The new Netflix miniseries THE QUEEN’S GAMBIT is chock full of riveting themes: obsession, sexism, and addiction…to name just three. The fictional journey of an orphaned girl in the late 1950s [...]

If one wanted to do a proper examination of the legendary filmmaker Stanley Kubrick, a 13-hour miniseries – one hour for each of his feature films – would still feel woefully [...]

The new documentary BELUSHI kicked off the 56th Chicago International Film Festival this past week and the strong film explores the late, great comedian John Belushi as well as stands as a [...]

A vindictive POTUS wants to be a “law and order” president and uses his Attorney General to go after protestors. An anachronistic justice system doesn’t work equally for a black man. And the [...]

Hardcore fans of Sherlock Holmes on the page or screen may find it difficult to embrace ENOLA HOLMES, Netflix’s new entry into the mix premiering September 23. The new film reimagines much of [...]

The motifs that filmmaker Christoper Nolan loves are evident throughout his latest epic TENET. There’s a tenacious hero similar to those in MEMENTO and THE DARK KNIGHT, a twisty plot playing with [...]

PALM SPRINGS made quite a splash when it debuted at Sundance this past January. The film was snatched up by Neon and Hulu for a cool deal reaching beyond 22 million. The transaction was worth [...]

  Ostensibly, the new French-language film THE TRUTH is about the relationship between an aging mother and her adult daughter, but really, it’s about actors. The way actors direct their [...]