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Till review — Potent drama reminds audiences of prevalent racist systems

May 3, 2023 flawintheiris

Directed by Chinonye Chukwu | Written by Chukwu, Michael Reilly and Keith Beauchamp | 130 min | ▲▲▲▲△ | Amazon Prime For those who don't know — and, if not, why? — Emmett Till was an African American teenager living in Chicago with his mother in 1955 when she sent him to visit his extended… Read More

The Harder They Fall review — A shotgun blast of good times

November 6, 2021 flawintheiris

Directed by Jeymes Samuel | Written by Samuel and Boaz Yakin | 130 min | Netflix Westerns with Black casts aren't unprecedented, but they are a rarity. That's not all that makes this picture special — Director Jeymes Samuel, also a musican, tells the story with action and style to spare, fuel-injected with a hip-hop… Read More