This is a movie like many we’ve seen before about the blatant racism of the Deep South during the time of the early civil rights movement in the early 1960’s. It’s based on the memoir (The Wrong Side of Murder Creek: A White Southerner in the Freedom Movement) of Bob Zellner a young man at the time […]
This helpful, informative documentary is hosted by an attractive, charming Ph.D. candidate at MIT, Joy Buolamwini. She works in the MIT Media Lab with a special interest in Artificial Intelligence (AI), and after she began realizing the potential harm in its intrinsic bias, she founded the Algorithmic Justice League. She is joined by numerous other researchers and
Oscar winning screenwriter Aaron Sorkin is one of the few that can make a thriller out of people sitting in a room. In many ways his latest, “The Trial of the Chicago 7”, uses some of the same techniques that won him the Academy Award for writing “The Social Network”. The drama about seven protesters
It’s 1971 in Durham, North Carolina, where segregation is still de rigeur. C. P. Ellis (Rockwell) owns a thriving gas station where all the customers are lily white and, by the way, he is president of the local KKK. But he is a good man, devoted to his wife, teenage daughter, and young son with Down’s Syndrome who
The Farrelly Brothers have plagued film critics with stupid comedies like Dumb & Dumber To, Hall Pass and Stuck on You for years. In his first solo venture, Peter Farrelly gives drama a go and the results couldn’t be more rewarding. Green Book slid into the 2018 Toronto Film Festival as an afterthought, but emerged
Houston born director Joseph Kahn’s latest film is not only his most prolific but his most subversively important. On the outside, Bodied, produced by Eminem, is a rap battle film with strong language, examining everything from racism to white privilege. Kahn’s script is more than just a relevant tool that creatively explores racial dynamics, but
Here is a good reason why only the Coen Brothers should be directing their scripts. George Clooney’s first time directing a film without playing an acting role, might hint at his disinterest in the material. If you know anything about Coen Brothers films, it’s their genius toying with underlining comedy. “Suburbicon” has all the right
Oscar winning director Kathryn Bigelow returns after “Zero Dark Thirty” with another pulse pounding true story, that feeds directly into today’s social relevancy. “Detroit” examines the 1967 riots that nearly destroyed a city, but the specific focus here is police brutality at a local area hotel that isn’t too far from today’s headlines. Bigelow and
Writer, director and producer Matt Brown doesn’t have the cinematic appetite to turn, what is basically his feature film debut, into a movie that is as good as other mathematician biopics. He also doesn’t explore the racial tension towards immigrants from India appropriately. It’s yet another case of a small film, with extraordinary potential by
The title “Race” is meant to imply both the action Jesse Owen claimed Olympic gold to, and the discrimination he faced getting there. Race debuts at a truly opportune time, following the controversy surrounding the 2015 awards race. While the lack of diversity might be the focus of this years’ Oscar race, it certainly has