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Beyond Eurocentric and Hollywood cinema

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“What I’m trying to do is theorize a way to create a brand new Black cinema,” Skinner Myers says. “Like a new Black cinematic...

The power of the real

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There is no shortage of ways to celebrate National Hispanic Heritage Month — observed from Sept. 15 to Oct. 15 — in the Centennial...

Bad education

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Growing up partly on the Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation in North Dakota, Jerilyn DeCoteau was often puzzled by the rigid and disciplinary way her...

The geek shall inherit the Earth

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Geeks are not found; they are made. This is the lesson Stanton Carlisle (Bradley Cooper), a drifter in 1940s America, learns first hand at...

Voice to the voiceless

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Has decency become a sin?” Ibrahima Dieng cries. On his knees, Ibrahima holds out his empty hands in mock offering. The world has stripped...

Look what the cat dragged in

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There never has been, and there never will be, a movie like Roar. Even the tagline is one in a million, “No animals were harmed in the making of this film. Seventy cast and crew members were.” If that doesn’t pique your interest, then you ought to have your pulse ...

Righteous retribution

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Cassie’s drunk again, alone in the club and a mess. She can’t find her phone, and all her friends have left. Two guys at...

The gospel according to woman

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There is an old saying that you should never meet your heroes, they may disappoint you. The new Belgian comedy from writer/director Jaco Van...

Mary, Mary, what you going to name that pretty little baby?

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The infamous Beale Street belongs to the city of Memphis, Tennessee, but every city has a Beale Street. So claimed writer James Baldwin, born...

In the depths of the ash

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Two men wait outside a church. They are armed and tasked with an assassination mission. The mark approaches, and the men leap into action,...

Snooze cruise

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What’s your level of interest here? It’s been 15 years and 30-plus features — not to mention TV and streaming series — since Iron...

A lesserknown masterpiece

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Every decade, the British Film Institute conducts its Sight and Sound poll of the Greatest Movies Ever Made. In 2012, the top two films were familiar: Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo and Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane, but third was a dark horse: Yasujirô Ozu’s 1953 ...