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Posted on October 28, 2014
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Mangrove review – Steve McQueen takes axe to racial prejudice
The notorious 1970 prosecution that exposed police harassment of black Britons is brilliantly evoked as part of the director's Small Axe projectVivid, immediate and impassioned, this new movie episode in [...]
Fri, Sep 25, 2020
Source: www.theguardian.com
Can the 'awards-bait' movie survive the impact of coronavirus?
The Emmys were held over Zoom and the Oscars have been pushed back – but the enforced shakeup from the pandemic could be just what the awards season needsAs with [...]
Fri, Sep 25, 2020
Source: www.theguardian.com
Rebuilding Paradise review – after the wildfire in a California town
The town of Paradise tries to get back on its feet in Ron Howard's quietly harrowing documentaryAs America's west coast continues to burn, this Ron Howard-directed documentary tells of the [...]
Fri, Sep 25, 2020
Source: www.theguardian.com
Miss Juneteenth review – inspiring tale of a mother's dreams
In a story steeped in pride for Black Texan culture, a struggling single mom hopes her daughter will repeat the success she once had as a beauty queenThis debut feature [...]
Fri, Sep 25, 2020
Source: www.theguardian.com
The Boys in the Band review – fierce fun and games in the pre-Aids era
This new film version of the off-Broadway hit about gay lives in New York is strange, compelling and unexpectedly potentIt's hammy and stagey and campy, but The Boys in the [...]
Fri, Sep 25, 2020
Source: www.theguardian.com
David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet review – stark climate emergency warning
This terrifying documentary looks back over the 93-year-old's career – but at its heart is a short, sharp, shocking lesson‘I am David Attenborough and I'm 93. This is my witness [...]
Fri, Sep 25, 2020
Source: www.theguardian.com
From Ida to The Evil Dead: 10 of the best films under 90 minutes
If you don't have the concentration for a cinematic epic, here is a selection of movies clocking in at less than an hour and a halfThis is not the moment [...]
Fri, Sep 25, 2020
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘We had the dust of radicalism sprinkled on us that night’ – an epic documentary of black student protest
The 1968 antiwar uprising at Columbia University is well known. But as Paul Cronin's new 15-hour film shows, while the white students focused on Vietnam, the black students' concerns are [...]
Fri, Sep 25, 2020
Source: www.theguardian.com
The Trial of the Chicago 7 review - totally exasperating court drama
Aaron Sorkin is at his most portentous with this inert film, stuffed with stars, which mislocates the point of the trial it dramatisesScreenwriter Aaron Sorkin, creator of TV's The West [...]
Fri, Sep 25, 2020
Source: www.theguardian.com
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Bafta tries to increase diversity with 120 changes to its awards
Academy says it will add 1,000 members from backgrounds that are underrepresentedBafta has announced a complete overhaul of its awards system, which includes adding 1,000 new members to its committee [...]
Thu, Sep 24, 2020
Source: www.theguardian.com