Reel Reviews | American Honey
by Tim Gordon A teenage girl with nothing to lose joins a traveling magazine sales crew and gets caught up in a whirlwind
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Film Reviews
Reel Reviews | The Birth of A Nation
by Tim Gordon With all of the subtlety of a buckshot blast, first time director, Nate Parker’s unflinching and unapologetic retelling of Nat
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Reel Reviews | Marvel’s Luke Cage
After teasing audiences with his vast potential in the Netflix series, Jessica Jones, Harlem’s hero, Power Man announces his presence with authority in
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Reel Reviews | Papa Machete
The short documentary spotlighting the esoteric martial arts form, Haitian Machete Fencing, is the subject of the engrossing film, Papa Machete.
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Reel Reviews | Mr. Church
Several years after his last disappointing dramatic turn, iconic comedian/actor Eddie Murphy returns as a sage cook and counselor in the unsatisfying and
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Reel Reviews | Queen Sugar
Draped in southern mysticism, family secrets, and lush imagery, Black Reel Award winner Ava DuVernay’s introduction to the world of television series,
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Reel Reviews | The Ghost and the Negro
The new web series from writer/director Sylvester K. Folks, The Ghost and the Negro, has been posted online. Folks’ project is a mystery/thriller
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Reel Reviews | Hell or High Water
Two brothers on a tight deadline, rob a series of banks to raise money to stop a foreclosure on their family home as
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