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NOPE: Confronting Historical Narratives of Cultural Revisionism & Exploitation
Nope (2022)
Directed & Written by Jordan Peele
Starring Daniel Kaluuya, Keke Palmer, Brandon Perea, Michael Wincott, Steven Yeun, Wrenn Schmidt, & Keith David.
Horror / Mystery / Sci-Fi / Thriller
★★★★1/2 (out of ★★★★★)
Jordan Peele started with Get Out, aiming many tropes in horror films at unravelling a lot of white nonsense in the genre and looking hard at the experiences of many Black people…
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These are my picks for this months Criterion Collection 50% off sale at Barnes & Noble:
Forty Guns (1957)
Dragon Inn (1967)
Romeo and Juliet (1968)
Buck and the Preacher (1972)
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RIP: Harry Belafonte Dead At 96
https://music.mxdwn.com/2023/04/25/news/rip-harry-belafonte-dead-at-96/
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R.I.P. HARRY BELAFONTE
Iconic singer
And civil rights activist
Stood with dignity
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Buck and The Preacher (Blu-ray Review)
Buck and The Preacher (Blu-ray Review)
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Preview- Buck and the Preacher (Criterion Collection Bluray)
Preview- Buck and the Preacher (Criterion Collection Bluray)
With his rousingly entertaining directorial debut, SIDNEY POITIER (Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner) helped rewrite the history of the western, bringing Black heroes to a genre in which they had always been sorely underrepresented.
Combining boisterous buddy comedy with blistering, Black Power–era political fury, Poitier and a marvellously mischievous HARRY BELAFONTE (Carmen Jones) star as a tough…
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Thinking Aloud About Film: Pressure (Horace Ové, 1976)
Thinking Aloud About Film: Pressure (Horace Ové, 1976)
In last week’s discussion of Med Hondo’s SOLEIL Ô (1970), we asked what was being done in Britain in this period? The answer is Horace Ové’s PRESSURE (1976), the first British film made by a black filmmaker. It’s a more inward looking film then Hondo’s film or ALI IN WONDERLAND (Djouhra Abouda, Alain Bonnamy, France/Algeria, 1975) or MANDABI (Ousmane Sembène, 1968), in that it focuses on racism…
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Daughter of Mr. Buck Grant, Negro preacher near Woodville, Greene County, Georgia. 1941 June
Photo: Jack Delano for The Farm Security Administration
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weird 04:00 ark fact: i was raised in a cult !
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