Tag: Son
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This 1940s Monster Movie Was the First Film to Portray Black People Positively
Black horror films are having a moment right now, with the upcoming releases of The Blackening and The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster. The genre has gained renewed interest in the past few years as the desire for more diverse films grows. When many people think of old Black horror movies, the first one…
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Bidding on ‘Flora And Son’ well into eight figures as Sundance heats up
Worldwide offers in on Beyond Utopia, The Eternal Memory.Heading into Monday evening Apple and Amazon were understood to be in hot pursuit of Sundance crowd-pleaser Flora And Son with bidding well into eight figures.John Carney’s story of a single mother who tries to get her broken family back together stars Bono’s daughter Eve Hewson, Joseph…
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‘My Son’: James McAvoy Will Improv His Way Through a Missing Person Thriller
James McAvoy (Split, The Chronicles of Narnia, Wanted) is set to star in a new version of My Son, a French missing person thriller which initially came out in 2017. Here’s the interesting part: McAvoy won’t be given a script or any lines of dialogue, so he’ll essentially be blindly making his way through the…
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Quincy review – portrait of a musical legend fails to sing
Rashida Jones’s sanitised bio-documentary about her father, the musician and producer Quincy Jones, fails to exploit her access to her subjectHas any person made as indelible an imprint on African American culture as Quincy Jones? This new bio-documentary makes a compelling case for the point, though that’s the only compelling aspect of this paint-by-numbers film.Directors…