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Just Mercy
by Le Anne Lindsay, Editor This was the opening night film at The 28th Annual Philadelphia Film Festival (Oct 17-28) starring Michael B Jordan, Jamie Foxx and Brie Larson in a supporting role. It zeros in on one particular case of world-renowned civil rights defense attorney Bryan Stevenson‘s work to free a wrongly condemned death row prisoner. It’s one of these movies you want to get behind, like CLEMENCY, because you know they are making important statements on society, justice and black life, and they are technically well-done, however, neither movie is very good in terms of enjoyment. That may sound superficial or trifling, but there are movies like The…
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Movie Blog Post: RBG aka The Notorious RBG
Tinsel & Tine’s look at RUTH BADER GINSBURG DOC RBG By Le Anne Lindsay, Editor Tinsel & Tine #MiniMovieReview – Finally saw RBG film (Directed by Betsy West & Julie Cohen) Oyez! Oyez! Oyez! All persons having business before the Honorable, the Supreme Court of the United States, are admonished to draw near and give their attention to this documentary! #NortoriousRBG directors Betsy West & Julie Cohen do a brilliant job bringing worthy attention to the 2nd female Supreme Court Justice, in a way that made me sit up and realize, as a woman, I owe her more honor and respect, not before truly realized. Ruth Bader Ginsburg is…
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Movie Blog Post: THE LIGHT BETWEEN OCEANS & COMPLETE UNKNOWN
Commentary: The Light Between Oceans & Complete Unknown By Le Anne Lindsay, Editor The Light Between Oceans – Directed by Derek Cianfrance who got wonderful reviews for Blue Valentine (2010) (click for T&T post) starring Ryan Gosling & Michelle Williams as a couple on their last legs of marriage, and mixed reviews for The Place Beyond the Pines (2012) (click for T&T post) which is not easy to sum up in one sentence, but is where Gosling met now wife Eva Mendes. His latest film The Light Between Oceans (based on a novel by M. L. Stedman) is where Michael Fassbender and Academy Award winner Alicia Vikander fell in love.…
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Re-examining Oppression – MANDELA: Long Walk to Freedom
I’m always fascinated by The Collective Unconscious, which in terms of film this past year, was made evident in the re-examination of race relations – 42, Fruitvale Station, The Butler, 12 Years A Slave and now Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom. What does it mean that past and present racial injustice and oppression are being so powerfully brought to life on the big screen at this moment in time? Are we exercising the ghosts of the past in order to usher in a better future of equality? And how do you feel as a Caucasian person watching these movies? Cause it’s not as if any of the films even attempt to see…
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Cold Grub for Wikileaks Sidekick: THE FIFTH ESTATE
The social structure of The Middle Ages established The Three Estates – The First Estate: Clergy; The Second Estate: Nobility; The Third Estate: Commoners; The Fourth Estate: Press and Journalism, didn’t come about until 1787 with the first reporting of the goings on in the House of Commons of Great Britain. Now in the age of the internet and Citizen Journalism a Fifth Estate has been born! T & T The Fifth Estate Synopsis: The movie starts out with a frenzy happening in a news room, which others probably would know is The Guardian in the UK, but not having followed the Wikileaks story closely back in 2010, I…
