Tag: violence
Bashment
British filmmaker Ricki Beadle Blair’s movies are never ever subtle, but this one made in 2010, insists on literally screaming about the cacophony of issues he crams into a rather manic 110 minutes. It tackles homophobia, hate crimes, racism, class, poverty, prison brutality, sexual identity, redemption plus there is the white star’s hangup for not being…
GRISGRIS
You can be forgiven for thinking that you are watching an African version of Saturday Night Fever in the opening sequences of this movie which captures an energetic man whirling around at full speed on the dance floor in his bright shiny white dress shirt. The excited audience are enthralled with this man’s gymnastic dancing and…
12 Years A Slave
I’m still trying to get my head around the fact that it took a British acclaimed filmmaker, and a Golden Globe nominated British and a German actor to make what is possibly the best movie EVER about American slavery. Steve McQueen’s take on the true story of Solomon Northup, an African-American free man who in…
THREE WORLDS
Al is about to win the Lottery. Or the equivalent of it. In 10 days time he will be promoted to General Manager of car dealership in a Parisian suburb where he started out as a lowly mechanic years ago, and he will be given a 25% stake in the business, and he gets to…
FOR COLORED GIRLS
This is a melodrama about 14 different African-American women loosely connected who are united by their color and all the bad things men have done to them. Based on an award winning Play from the 1970’s (full title For Colored Girls who have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow is Enuf), which was technically a choreo-poem,…
