‘Test Pattern’ is the type of film that you love hearing has been made, but at the same time find it difficult to watch.
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Tag: Drama
Nomadland Movie Review
Writer and director of the screenplay for ‘Nomadland,’ Chloé Zhao, has said, ‘The American road fascinates me. It’s heartbreakingly beautiful and deeply complicated. I’ve traveled it for many years and always hoped to capture a glimpse of it.’ With that in mind, one must think that’s why the Chinese filmmaker chose to get involved with turning Jessica Bruder’s book into a film.
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Judas and the Black Messiah Movie Review
This film is inspired by true events. Similarly, to Sam Pollard’s ‘MLK/FBI’ out earlier this year, ‘Judas and the Black Messiah’ shows the world how afraid of powerful black men J. Edgar Hoover’s 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.
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The Mauritanian Movie Review
Director Kevin Macdonald both enlightens and shocks with this dramatic film. After a suspenseful opening scene where we meet the main character, a man by the name of Mohamedou Ould Slahi, from Mauritanian, South African, we find out that he’s in desperate need of help.
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Land Movie Review
February 11, 2021
(updated February 11, 2021)
Published by JMcNaughton
Land” is a movie obsessed with separation, because it studies a woman who separates herself from society. Due to a tragic incident in her life, she carries a major emotional burden. She carries that burden alone and removes herself from her home, off to a remote mountain cabin somewhere out ‘Into the Wild’. Is she there to find a new beginning, or is it a way to end it all?” Read more
Minari Movie Review
February 11, 2021
(updated February 11, 2021)
Published by JMcNaughton
In select theaters February 12th and On Demand February 26th
“Minari” is a refreshing look at the struggles and triumphs of a family. Originally from Korea, this family immigrated to America to live in L.A. and then relocated to Arkansas. They are seemingly out-of-place in a very rural farm site. But the father’s desire to be a successful farmer is the driving force to keep them together.
Land Virtual Advance Movie Screening
February 9, 2021
(updated February 9, 2021)
Published by markdeli
Movie Screening Summary
A story about healing and the transcendent power of human kindness, Land follows the journey of a woman searching for a new way to live in the wake of a life-altering loss. Read more
The Mauritanian Advance Movie Screening
February 8, 2021
(updated February 9, 2021)
Published by markdeli
Movie Screening Summary
Directed by Kevin Macdonald and based on the NY Times best-selling memoir “Guantánamo Diary” by Mohamedou Ould Slahi. This is the inspiring true story of Slahi’s fight for freedom after being detained and imprisoned without charge by the U.S. Government for years. Read more
Bliss Movie Review
In this ‘review,’ I’m not going to make it easy for you to understand what ‘Bliss’ is about, and I mean to keep it that way.
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Test Pattern Movie Trailer
Trailer for: Test Pattern – Shatara Michelle Ford’s Powerful Debut Exploring Gender, Race, and Consent Opens Feb 19 via Kino Lorber
Starring: Brittany S. Hall, Will Brill, Gail Bean, and Drew Fuller
Run Time: 1h 22min
Genre: Drama, Thriller
*Winner: BlackStar Film Festival – Lionsgate/STARZ Producer Award
*Winner: New Orleans Film Festival – Narrative Features Jury Award
