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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
why, from the beginning of time, are so many white men in power so lousy!?! Why do they get off on subjugation, bigotry and exclusion?...
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Movie Blog Post: THE LIGHT BETWEEN OCEANS & COMPLETE UNKNOWN
Fassbender’s character Tom is newly back from War War I and feeling a lot of survivor’s guilt. He takes a job as a lighthouse keeper at a remote lighthouse off the coast of Australia. Before setting out to his isolated post, he's invited to dinner by his employer...
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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…
