It's become quite the trend in recent years for documentaries to be produced on tabloid figures of the last 30 years, like Britney Spears and Pamela Anderson, that seek to correct the narrative that these women were misunderstood, exploited, possibly worse. If that was the goal with Anna Nicole Smith: You Don't Know Me then it is the failure of the century. Director Ursula Macfarlane apparently seeks to redeem the late star born Vickie Lynn Hogan who died from an…
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Io Capitano 2023
This brutal and moving drama about two migrant teens making the treacherous journey from Senegal to Italy comes courtesy of Italian director Matteo Garrone (Gomorrah, Dogman). Io Capitano centers on teen cousins Seydou (the marvelous Seydou Sarr) and Moussa (Moustapha Fall) as they seek a better life, even if they have to go through hell to get there. It puts a human face on an issue that so often is told purely in numbers, that of the many migrants from…
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Sambizanga 1972
A masterpiece. You've seldom seen a film bursting with such beautiful, arresting visuals as Sarah Maldoror's 1972 triumph Sambizanga. The French-born Maldoror (who died last year from COVID) studied film in Moscow with Ousmane Sembene and worked as an assitant on Gillo Pontecorvo's landmark The Battle of Algiers, and is undoubtedly one of the great voices in cinema history even if she didnt make a lot of feature narrative films.
Shot in the Congo, which stands in for Angola, Sambizanga…
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Robin Hood 2018
The 2018 version of Robin Hood is definitely in the running as one of the worst movies of the year. Talk about a movie that falls flat. Whats worse is how its drink on its own false sense of cool. This one is the umpteenth version of the outlaw story that includes the awful Kevin Costner vehicle Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves and the middling 2010 Robin Hood from Ridley Scott. This new Robin is played by the smokin hot…