In December 1969, a tactical unit of the Cook County State Attorney’s Office, the Chicago Police Department and the FBI performed a raid on an apartment in the city.
Up until quite recently you might not have heard of Golda Rosheuvel, the Guyanese-born British actress who has won the attention of audiences around the world for her scene-stealing turn as Queen Charlotte on Netflix’s period drama “Bridgerton”.
In 2015, Matthew Teague published an essay in Esquire magazine. The entry-point was about his wife’s cancer-diagnosis and untimely death, but the essay’s focus was the way that one of their friend’s became a dependable fortress that helped the family through the ordeal.
August Wilson’s 1982 play “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” – one of the ten-play Pittsburgh Cycle by Wilson – uses the historical figure of Ma Rainey, famed blues singer, to explore issues of black pain, and black art.
What is the allure of a palindrome?
The question lingered through much of Christopher Nolan’s “Tenet,” which presents itself as a kind of filmic palindrome.
Eleven years ago, following the success of his first full-length film, “Hunger,” director Steve McQueen had an idea – a series dedicated to the West Indian experience in the UK.
About half way into “Ammonite”, the second film of British filmmaker Francis Lee, there is a scene that lays the groundwork for the shift that will come in its second half.
In the first fifteen minutes of Clea DuVall’s romantic comedy “Happiest Season”, the film has delivered a slew of well-worn tropes that align it with a long and storied line of similar romantic comedies and holiday films.
“Blackbird,” Roger Michell’s remake of the Danish drama “Silent Heart” (both written by Christian Torpe), is not what you would expect from a film that ends with euthanasia.
Two former Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) premieres, one from 2018 and one from 2019, finally make their way to audiences in the last quarter of 2020, offering different takes on the lengths people go to in service of family.
The new film “S#!%house” (the bowdlerised first part of the title rhymes with “flit”) is performing a deft kind of misdirection with its presumptuous title.
The Society Against Sexual Orientation Discrimination’s Spectrum Film Festival, which celebrates films by and about queer identities, is running virtually for the month of October.
“Red, White and Blue”, the third film of Steve McQueen’s “Small Axe” miniseries, will wrap up the five-part anthology when it premieres at the end of November on Prime Video.
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