Written and Directed by: Christopher Nolan
Starring: Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Robert Downey, Jr., Matt Damon, Rami Malek, Florence Pugh, Benny Safdie, Michael Angarano, Josh Hartnett, and Kenneth Branagh
Genres: Biography, Drama, History
In case you weren’t aware, “The Woman King” is inspired by a true story. In the 1800s there were warrior women called the Agojie who protected the kingdom and, most significantly, the king of Dahomey Africa.
I’ll get this out of the way for you… this movie is an absolute must-see! I’m predicting right now that you’ll hear a lot about it during award season.
Directed by: Chinonye Chukwu
Written by: Michael Reilly & Keith Beauchamp and Chinonye Chukwu
Starring: Danielle Deadwyler, Whoopi Goldberg, Jalyn Hall, Frankie Faison, Jayme Lawson, Tosin Cole, Kevin Carroll, Sean Patrick Thomas, John Douglas Thompson, Roger Guenveur Smith, and Haley Bennett.
Rated: Not Yet Rated
Genre: Drama
Producers: Keith Beauchamp, p.g.a., Barbara Broccoli, p.g.a., Whoopi Goldberg, Thomas Levine, Michael Reilly
and Frederick Zollo, p.g.a.
Executive Producers: Preston Holmes, Chinonye Chukwu
I had heard the term the “Louis Wain Cat” before but had no idea what it meant. Having had no genuine interest in cats until later in life when I got one for my child, I never dove into anything about the mousers. I instead believed that they were more vicious where dogs were more sweet.
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Directed by: Will Sharpe
Story by: Simon Stephenson; Screenplay by Simon Stephenson and Will Sharpe
Starring: Taika Waititi, Aimee Lou Wood, Benedict Cumberbatch
Rated: PG-13
Run Time: 1h 51min
Genres: Biography, Drama, History
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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In Aaron Sorkin’s film, ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7,’ we learn of the seven political radicals’ notorious trail, who were arrested in 1968 before the Democratic National Convention.
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Rated: R
