Reel Reviews | Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
by Charles Kirkland Jr. Another one of August Wilson’s comes to life anchored by the last performance of Chadwick Boseman in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom.
Film Reviews
Reel Reviews | Mank
by Tim Gordon Welcome to Reel Reviews, This week’s review is the biographical drama, Mank, which tells the story of screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz and [read more]
Reel Reviews | Small Axe (Lover’s Rock)
by Charles Kirkland Jr. The Small Axe series of Amazon Prime continues with a stone-cold Jamaican house party in Lovers Rock.
Reel Reviews | The Nest
by Charles Kirkland Jr. An ambitious broker relocates his family from New York to a mansion in the Surrey suburbs of London in The Nest.
Reel Reviews | Small Axe (Mangrove)
by Charles Kirkland Jr. The Small Axe series of Amazon Prime starts with a courtroom drama documenting racial unrest in Great Britain called Mangrove.
Reel Reviews | Voices of Fire
by Charles Kirkland Jr. Pharrell Williams produces the story of the assembly of a gospel choir in his hometown in the Netflix series Voices of [read more]
Reel Reviews | Time
by Charles Kirkland, Jr. An unapologetic look at the prison system and how one family overcomes the damages it inflicts is the subject of the [read more]
Reel Reviews | Hillbilly Elegy
by Charles Kirkland Jr. Ron Howard returns to directing with his adaptation of JD Vance’s autobiographical novel, Hillbilly Elegy.