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Looking Back and Looking Forward: 2020
Before I press on with my usual roundup of the year’s releases, I’ll put forward a few other films that have hit me particularly hard this year. What should you watch to see out this most awful of awful twelve … Continue reading
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Tagged A White White Day, Ainu Mosir, Babyteeth, Being There, Black Panther, Coco, Crip Camp, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, His House, Host, Mangrove, Mank, Monsoon, Never Rarely Sometimes Always, Parasite, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Possessor, Rocks, Scare Me, Shirley, The Assistant, The Great Dictator, The Vast of Night, Time
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Review in Brief: Mangrove (2020)
MANGROVE, Steve McQueen’s furious opening salvo in his SMALL AXE film anthology is powerful, poignant and essential Black British storytelling. The film remembers the Mangrove Nine and their very public 55 day trial for supposedly inciting a riot by protesting … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Film Review, Review in Brief
Tagged Drama, Malachi Kirby, Mangrove, Shaun Parkes, Small Axe, Steve McQueen
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