Sidney – Review Carmen Paddock September 27, 2022 Reviews Few twentieth century film industry professionals can boast a career as storied or influential as Sidney Poitier - the quality and significance of his work on screen as an actor, behind the scenes as director,...
Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am – GFF 2020 Review Carmen Paddock March 2, 2020 Reviews Talking heads bio-docs are no new invention, yet Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am becomes something special through the enthusiasm, wit, and warmth of all involved. A clear sense of love for the literary legend...
A Wrinkle in Time – Review Marcus Beard March 17, 2018 Reviews A Wrinkle in Time is a colourful, universe-hopping adventure to find Chris Pine: the man so handsome you quickly forget his character's name. After her quantum physicist father's suspicious disappearance,...
Selma – Review Danielle Davenport February 3, 2015 Reviews 3 Comments There is much to recommend Selma besides the lure of Martin Luther King. It is creative and well told; never indolent and always interesting; grandiose yet intimate. DuVernay - through a wonderfully slender...
Best Films Never Made #17: Oliver Stone’s MLK Chris Davies June 21, 2014 Behind The Curtain, Best Films Never Made, Features From his marble throne Abraham Lincoln looked out across Washington, D.C. 250,000 men, woman and children were gathered before his memorial under the banner of equality and freedom, regardless of the colour of...