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The Underground Railroad, and the alchemy of putting music to picture 14/05/2021
What do the big moments in life sound like when you re stood in the middle of them? A Black couple are finally allowed to rent an apartment together in Seventies New York and shout to the sky with joy. A boy sits close to the friend he cannot voice his feelings for on a moonlit beach. A runaway slave from a plantation looks up to see a skyscraper towering over South Carolina. The eldest son of an American media empire watches his father reject him, for all the world to see.
Your Weekend Planner May 14: Eid Mubarak, Radhe Your Most Wanted Bhai is here
Your Weekend Planner May 14: Eid Mubarak, Radhe Your Most Wanted Bhai is here
Salman Khan has gifted Salman Khan fans yet another Salman Khan blockbuster this Eid. Radhe, Your Most Wanted Bhai arrived on Zee5 yesterday.
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Salman Khan in a still from Radhe Your Most Wanted Bhai.
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Salman Khan film releases are mostly an occasion for his fans. There s the added joy of Eid too. And keeping true to The Salman Khan image, Salman Khan has gifted Salman Khan fans yet another Salman Khan blockbuster this Eid. Radhe, Your Most Wanted Bhai arrived on Zee5 yesterday and resulted in their servers crashing. The platform sorted out issues quickly but last we checked, non-Salman fans who happened to watch Radhe were still reeling from its after-effects. You can read our review of Radhe here.
The Underground Railroad Review: Thuso Mbedu infuses her role with empathy and humanity, captures both terror and tenderness. Joel Edgerton's is a powerful presence. Chase W. Dillon is a consummate scene-stealer.
The Underground Railroad (2021)
Dropping onto Amazon Prime this weekend, The Underground Railroad is an imposing 10-hour mothership of event TV. The largest project yet from Moonlight (2016) and If Beale Street Could Talk (2018) director Barry Jenkins, itâs an epic imagining of Colson Whiteheadâs Pulitzer Prize-winning 2016 novel about two slaves in the American south who escape their plantation via the ârailroadâ of the title â a clandestine network aiding the liberation of enslaved African-Americans. The great imaginative leap of Whiteheadâs novel was to envision this system as an actual railway, a freedom express, and Jenkinsâ distinctive, in-the-moment lyricism makes a perfect fit to bring this magical realist coup into being on screen. The first episode, a little over an hour long, introduces us to Cora (Thuso Mbedu, a discovery from South African TV) and Caesar (British actor Aaron Pierre) and their life on a Georgia plantation, where the
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