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The Importance of Being Poitier
Oscar night was always a tradition for my family when I was growing up. Dad would throw some chicken wings in the oven to bake, I would run to the garage to grab the fold-up […]
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Blu-ray Review: Carl Franklin’s DEVIL IN A BLUE DRESS (1995)
“It was summer, 1948, and I needed money.” Competent, and at times compelling, Carl Franklin’s pedestrian neo-noir Devil in a Blue Dress boasts a syzygy of talent that keeps it going. The first of these components is […]
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White Heat: Mississippi Burning
Contributing writer Kyle Turner has weighed and measured Alan Parker’s Mississippi Burning — and has found it wanting. Alan Parker’s 1988 race drama Mississippi Burning opens with a shot of two water fountains adjacent to one another […]