‘The Boy from MedellĂn’ was shot over one week in the life of Latin Grammy-winning musician, JosĂ© Ălvaro Osorio BalvĂn, who goes by the name of J Balvin.
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This film is inspired by true events. Similarly, to Sam Pollardâs âMLK/FBIâ out earlier this year, âJudas and the Black Messiahâ shows the world how afraid of powerful black men J. Edgar Hooverâs FBI was. Both films come out and say that he feared a Black Messiah and that the number of people Black leaders such as Dr. Martin Luther King and the focus of this film, Black Panther leader Fred Hampton, could gather with one assembly alone, terrified him.â
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THE GLORIAS is available for purchase on Digital and Streaming exclusively on Prime Video starting September 30th.
“The Glorias” movie will tell you that Gloria Steinem is someone who looms large on the screen. So large, in fact, that the character needs to be by portrayed by four individuals. A child plays Steinem as a young girl, then another plays her as a teenager. Yet another person portrays Steinem as a young adult, and even later, she is portrayed by someone else. Through the whole tale, Steinem is shown being with the people who had influenced her. Then finally Steinem has grown into the person who has influenced an entire generation of women.
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“Tesla” is movie about the influential, but much-lesser known, counterpoint to Thomas Edison – Nikola Tesla. The facts surrounding Tesla’s life and his creative spirit should form the basis of a super-charged jolt of a movie. Alas, this effort proves that the juice can run out – even for a bio-pic of a person well ahead of his time.
Maria Salomea SkĆodowska, born in Poland, migrated to France and became the renowned physicist and chemist who pioneered the research into radium and discovered radioactivity. Read more
