The 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre is coming soon to a TV near you.
Oklahomans will be able to tune into at least five new documentaries that will be televised to coincide with the upcoming centennial of the 1921 tragedy.
For those who prefer to take in history through fantastical fiction, two series streaming on HBO Max offer opportunities to see a recreation of some of the darkest days in Oklahoma s complicated history.
The Tulsa Race Massacre was one of the worst episodes of racial violence in U.S. history. Between May 31 and June 1, 1921, mobs of white residents attacked, set aflame and ultimately devastated the Greenwood District, which was at that time one of the wealthiest Black communities in the United States, earning it the name Black Wall Street.
Inherent Vice is a film about a stoner which itself seems stoned. This is just one small part of what makes it distinctive.
Adapted from Thomas Pynchon s 2009 novel, the movie has been compared by many to the Coen brothers The Big Lebowski, a drug-fueled LA comedy with a similarly labyrinthian mystery (or mystery ) and some shared themes. But Vice is a richer, deeper, sweeter, equally funny movie. It owes a great deal to laid-back, character-and-atmosphere driven 1970s L.A. films such as The Long Goodbye and Cisco Pike, but it never makes too big a deal of that lineage. As adapted and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, it s a historical and political picture about The American Soul, though not too strenuously so. Mostly it s a long, shaggy, knockabout comedy about eccentrics who pursue their own appetites and manias and indulge their private demons while remaining oblivious to their effect on others. As such, it s a great people-watching film, showcasing a diverse cast
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There s always rationing in wartime. What s rationed in Todd Solondz s Life During Wartime are feelings of hope, kindness and optimism. His people are disturbed, pleading and often perverse, and indeed some of them are so badly off, they re dead and must appear as ghosts to make their complaints. Always the kvetching, from beyond the grave yet.
Solondz describes the film as a quasi-sequel to his great Happiness (1998). If ever there was a film where the characters lives were over at the end, it s that one. Solondz brought closure. Now 12 years later, wondering what happened to his people after that film ended, he approaches entropic collapse.
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Lovecraft Country season one wrapped up with a finale which, true to form, didn t hold back.
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