Tag: Historical Fiction
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‘Zondvloed (Flood)’ — MiamisFF Review: Between a Flood and a Hard Place
While prioritizing production value over substance, Flood depicts an emotionally taut family drama set during the farmland flooding of the Franco-Dutch war.
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‘RRR’: A Blockbuster of Spectacular Yet Predictable Proportions
Its predictability shouldn’t distract from the enjoyment that the pure cinematic imagination behind the camera elicits. It is a movie of crises both moral and mortal, oozing with CGI, and thoroughly enjoyable.
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Once Upon a Time in (White) Hollywood
Tarantino’s alternative history of the 1960’s uncritically repeats the era’s sexist and racist stereotypes.
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A Tragic Antihero: Judy
Renee Zellweger shines in this Judy Garland biopic, which highlights the pain and loneliness that so many famous women endure.
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War is Not the Answer: Music in “Da 5 Bloods”
Marvin Gaye’s powerful music addresses the same themes as “Da 5 Bloods” and elevates the film to even greater heights.
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Netflix’s “Self Made”: What’s Fact and What’s Fiction?
Netflix takes some liberties in its portrayal of Madame CJ Walker, a trailblazing Black entrepreneur.
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It’s a bird, it’s a plane…it’s Harriet!
Harriet is a tribute to an American legend, and the reverence for Harriet Tubman is obvious in this film. As many reviews have mentioned, this is not a slavery story, it is a freedom story. The viewers only see Harriet as a slave for the first few minutes of the film. To me, it felt…