MA RAINEY’S BLACK BOTTOM: 4 STARS It’s hard not to watch “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” the vibrant adaptation of August Wilson’s play of the same name, now streaming on Netflix, without feeling a sense of loss. It’s Chadwick Boseman’s last performance and the life he brings to the role of ambitious trumpet player Levee acts as a poignant reminder of a career cut tragically short. Set in the roaring 1920’s Chicago, Viola Davis plays the titular character, a real-life musical trailblazer known as Mother of the Blues. On a sweltering day in a dank basement recording studio, the band, pianist Toledo (Glynn Turman), trombonist Cutler (Colman Domingo), and string bassist Slow Drag (Michael Potts) and Levee, rehearse as they wait for the fashionably late Ma to arrive.
All cinemas from Boxing Day They say: Wonder Woman polevaults across history to the 1980s, where she finds two new evil adversaries in Max Lord and Cheetah. We say: In a year where superhero fans have been starved of anything resembling a spectacle, the most popular screen superheroine of all time steps up to save the day. Over the entire summer, WW1984 is the only old-school blockbuster steamrolling into cinemas. Word coming in from the premiere earlier this week is that both Gal Gadot and the franchise as a whole have really lifted their game here. Will be a huge hit.
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“Monster Hunter” comes out today.
The action fantasy, based on the video game series, follows a unit of soldiers into a new world of dangerous and powerful monsters – who rule their domain with deadly ferocity.
Milla Jovovich stars as Captain Artemis and
Tip T.I. Harris as Link.
EUR correspondent Fahnia Thomas talked to Harris about Africa, auditions and the internet.
FT: Do you still have to audition for acting roles?
TI: I do for some things. I didn’t for this role. One thing I learned is if you maintain the equity in your art no one will be able to tell you what position you fit in because you’re in the driver’s seat. The Tyler Perry’s [of the world] have shown us that.
Monster Hunter Is Loud, Unapologetic Fun Vulture.com 12/18/2020 Bilge Ebiri
Mortal Kombat, the
Resident Evil series, and now
Monster Hunter on his résumé. Each of these adaptations is quite different (and some are better than others), but if there’s one thing that seems to unite the pictures, and Anderson’s work in general, it has to be his attention to the environments in which the action takes place; he’s the most architectural of genre filmmakers. His first feature, the controversial indie British drama
Shopping, introduced the world to Jude Law as a nihilistic young hood who got his kicks crashing cars into shopping malls. In the two films that followed,