Tag: Regina King
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Shirley: Not Quite Capturing Her Multitudes
MOVIE INFO VIA ROTTEN TOMATOES: The story of the first Black congresswoman, Shirley Chisholm, and her trailblazing run for president of the United States. REVIEW: Shirley Chisholm was a mold breaking politician who challenged the standard narrative of her time and blazed a trail for every women after her. Shirley on Netflix, gives short shift…
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“If Beale Street Could Talk” It Would Say Let the Women Alone
If Barry Jenkins is looking for something James Baldwin-like to adapt Jenkins should go back and look at Moonlight and know that Baldwin would be happy with that filmic vision rather than the steady technical brilliance of If Beale Street Could Talk. Baldwin would have told Jenkins not to get caught up in duplicating the…