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Paul Whitington of the Irish Independent is in studio to review this week's big releases - Oscar - nominated civil rights film Selma, the Wachowski's sci - fi Jupiter Ascending, the latest offering from Aardman - Shaun the Sheep, and Irish director Terry McMahon's Patrick's Day.
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The internet, the film's website declares, is becoming «the next frontier of civil rights.»
An Arab - American civil rights organization also asked director Clint Eastwood and actor Bradley Cooper to denounce hateful language directed at U.S. Arabs and Muslims after the release of the film.
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Although there's plenty of room for differing opinions in the Christian faith, this film is one more piece of evidence that wherever you land, believers can no longer sit on the sidelines when it comes to issues of race, civil rights and how we interpret our past.
Narrated by Samuel L. Jackson, I Am Not Your Negro is a documentary film based on Remember This House, an unpublished, unfinished manuscript written by civil rights activist James Baldwin.
David Oyelowo, who plays the civil rights leader in the film, is everywhere this year — from roles in Christopher Nolan's Interstellar and J. C. Chandor's A Most Violent Year to his major role as King.
I can think of more than a few presidential candidates who would benefit from watching this film, from Mitt «Our most basic civil liberty is the right to be kept alive» Romney to Ron «Lincoln was a despot» Paul to all the Democrats who didn't stand with Chris Dodd on the FISA bill.
HRC says this new «public engagement campaign» will feature prominent Americans who support gay marriage, drawing from a cadre of supportive professional athletes, film and music celebrities, political and civil rights leaders.
Dubbed «Do the Right Thing Day» by Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, Saturday's event on Stuyvesant Avenue between Quincy Street and Lexington Avenue will celebrate the film's impact on Brooklyn and the civil rights movement, Adams said.
Based on Kathryn Stockett's novel, the Civil Rights - era film is set in Mississippi and stars Viola Davis and Emma Stone.
The good and noble deed at the center of the film is the passing of the Thirteenth Amendment, the monumental piece of legislation that definitively abolished American slavery and laid the sturdy groundwork for a century and a half of civil rights struggle.
, the documentary film on Nina Simone (1933 - 2003), directed by Liz Garbus and recently released on Netflix, is an informative and often fascinating examination of the life and times of the singer and civil rights activist.
3 / 4Sammy Davis, Jr.: I've Got ta Be Me is the first major film documentary to examine Davis» vast talent and his journey for identity through the shifting tides of civil rights and racial progress during 20th - century America.Sammy Davis, Jr. had the kind of career that was indisputably legendary, so vast and multi-faceted that it was dizzying in its scope and scale.
There is no mention, in Anon, the latest film from writer - director Andrew Niccol (Good Kill, The Host), of such pesky notions as civil rights or legal warrants for Ether access.
The result is a film that doesn't chart the rise and fall of the black power movement, and viewers unfamiliar with civil rights history will likely be lost.
Some highlights of the conversation include the Joel Silver cameo, the notion that Roger Rabbit is a film about civil rights, and the fact that Steven Spielberg paved the way for an unprecedented cooperation between Disney and Warner Brothers to gain access to so many cartoon characters.
Dealing with the Civil Rights act and his relationship with Martin Luther King as well as trying to get re-elected, Jay Roach gives us a great script and paces the film masterfully.
She is determined to nurture «from the inside» a project of civil rights education, but her Guarani - speaking high - school students resist her civics lessons - and she quickly learns that gaining their trust won't be an easy task.These subtly illuminating encounters reverberate in the aftermath of the central event of the film - a harrowing sexual assault by a group of young men.
Sing Your Song (A film by Susanne Rostock)-- Most people know the lasting legacy of Harry Belafonte, the entertainer; this film unearths his significant contribution to and his leadership in the civil rights movement in America and to social justice globally.
The 56 - year - old actor plays the iconic religious leader and civil rights activist in the drama film «The Forgiven», and he's admitted to being delighted by Tutu's reaction to the movie, which also stars Eric Bana.
Yet there is an immediate relevance to all of her films, explicitly so with 2006's Old Joy, which interrupts its early moments of awkward silence with Air America broadcasts in which callers animatedly discuss first the legacy of the Johnson administration's push for civil rights legislation, then the current political divide of the Bush era.
Paramount Pictures did not send out screeners of its civil rights drama «Selma» because director Ava DuVernay had not locked the final cut of the film, which is due in theaters on Christmas Day.
I like focused biopics that don't feel they need to go from cradle to grave, but the focus here gives the film a bit of unearned hero worship, as we see LBJ hold the country together after tragedy and fight for civil rights against caricaturish opponents.
Set in 1959, the period piece directly deals with the integration of suburbs in the era of the civil rights movement, although whether or not the film deals with it well is up for you to decide.
The film takes place during the Cold War and Civil Rights Movement; Elisa, Zelda, and Giles are all outcasts.
The years needed for change as in other civil rights movements echoes in the slow burn of win - appeal we suffer as an audience in the film.
With a soundtrack that includes performances by rising musician Gary Clark Jr. (as Sonny), Keb» Mo», and Kel Mitchell, the film intertwines race, civil rights, and rhythm and blues.
What truly derails the film is its court - room / civil rights slant which revolves around Ted trying to become a «real boy» so he and his new wife Tami - Lyn (the excellent Jessica Barth) can become parents in a bid to save their marriage.
In addition to directing, Redford also stars in the film as a civil rights lawyer who must go on the run when he's outed...
Of course, if you are going to make another civil rights sports movie, the story of Jackie Robinson is pretty much the definitive version, so it's surprising that only one other film («The Jackie Robinson Story») has been made on the subject, and that movie starred the famous baseball player as himself.
Rather than construct a simply biopic of Baldwin, or a film about the racial climate in America during the 1960s, Peck skips between time periods, showing us civil rights marches one moment and Black Lives Matter demonstrations the next.
Not so Joe and Anthony Russo, whose Captain America: Civil War just kicked off the Marvel Cinematic Universe's Phase 3 with a bang, and who are apparently in China right now discussing their upcoming Mandarin - only sci - fi action film.
Never before have frustrations over a tie said so much about the 1960s Civil Rights Movement in America, and to an extent, the trepidation of transitioning a slice of King's life to film (Selma is the most ambitious to date).
Essentially the film is saying that, at a time when civil rights for gays are still under attack, there is no one of Milk's charisma on the scene to lead the charge.
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«Selma» features Oprah Winfrey, who also produced the feature film, Tom Wilkinson as President Lyndon Johnson, who signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965.
In the midst of the fight for civil rights, and at a time when Blaxploitation films were in full stride, here we have a film that delves into the very same themes, though in the guise of apes instead of our fellow man.
If the film feels Old Hollywood in that the stars are pretty, the heroes are tough, and the sex is good but the brutality is better, then excavate the ways that this period in our history dissolves into period noir: shells of men entrusted with the rebuilding of our society, with dangerous women and effete men (abortion rights and gay marriage vs. the evacuation of civil rights and ground wars in the Middle East) embodying the greater peril.
None of Johnson's «triumphs» are played as such — the Civil Rights Act is passed midway through the film, and the whole thing ends on an almost bitterly interior note.
Sidelining many of the most inspiring aspects of the civil rights movement, the film focuses solely on the nitty - gritty and often alarming way in which Johnson juggled the opposing demands of movement leaders, like Martin Luther King (Anthony Mackie), with those of Southern Democrats, embodied here by Johnson friend and mentor Georgia Senator Richard Russell (Frank Langella), to force the act through a divided and, in many cases, openly racist Congress.
Scripted by Danny Strong, Lee Daniels» civil rights era film meanders perhaps a bit too much in places, but because of the talents of Forest Whitaker and Oprah Winfrey, it still manages to please the majority of the time.
Some lucky, lucky fans and critics had the opportunity to attend early screenings of Captain America: Civil War last night — and as of right now, the majority of the reactions to the film have been mostly positive!
Ava DuVernay's 13th is an equally important film and worth a watch, but the lyricism and beauty of Raoul Peck's I Am Not Your Negro, based on an unfinished manuscript by social critic James Baldwin detailing his friendships and interactions with civil rights leaders, has stuck with me.
by Bryant Frazer Very early on in Blue Streak, as Miles Logan, the character portrayed by a fast - talking Martin Lawrence, co-opts Dr. Martin Luther King's famous «I Have a Dream» speech to describe his own civil rights movement upon getting released from the joint after serving time for his role in a botched jewel heist, it's clear the film is aiming for giddy irreverence.
W Magazine Taraji P. Henson, always fun, talks about getting the acting bug, auditioning for Precious and falling in love with «Cookie» on Empire even though she didn't want to do TV again AV Club Taraji also has a new leading film role as civil rights activist Ann Atwater who in 1971 had meetings with the Klu Klux Klan leader on reducing violence.
The film's written and directed by Ava DuVernay and chronicles the civil rights marches that changed the face of America.
The film, which is set in the South after the Civil War, raised the ire of civil rights groups such as the NAACP, which decried «the impression it gives of an idyllic master - slave relationship, which is a distortion of the facts.&rCivil War, raised the ire of civil rights groups such as the NAACP, which decried «the impression it gives of an idyllic master - slave relationship, which is a distortion of the facts.&rcivil rights groups such as the NAACP, which decried «the impression it gives of an idyllic master - slave relationship, which is a distortion of the facts.»
The NAACP and other civil rights groups criticized the performances and the films for presenting stereotyped and negative images of blacks.
The film is comprehensive in its portrait of not only the moral necessity of the civil rights movement and legislation but also the practical need for them.