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Dec. 17, 2020 4:25 pm ET Most of “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” a powerful, ultimately shattering screen version of the 1982 August Wilson play, takes place on a single afternoon in 1927, in a seedy Chicago studio where the great blues singer of the title has come to make a record. The Netflix film doesn’t pretend to the broad physical scope of a commercial movie and doesn’t need to. Wilson’s words dictate the production’s form, eloquent words and electrifying soliloquies that resonate in close quarters. Still, the opening sequence plays a thoroughly ci...

mtv Ma Rainey's Taylour Paige Acts For 'The Little Black Girl In Me' Sharing the screen with Viola Davis and Chadwick Boseman in his final film role, the breakout performer ends 2020 on a high note By Ural Garrett Inglewood, California, native Taylour Paige spent years honing her skills as a professional dancer, studying under storied actress and choreographer Debbie Allen in Los Angeles before working a few months as a Laker Girl in 2010. It was a seamless transition when Paige’s television debut came in 2013 on VH1/BET cheerleading sports drama Hit the Fl...

More of Ma’s time and attention is what everybody wants in  Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (★★★★☆), even if she’s just going to be gritting her teeth before taking a bite out of their ass. Only one in Ma’s circle — among her band, her manager, her nephew, her girlfriend — thinks they should be the center of attention, and that’s Levee, her horn player. Full of brass and braggadocio, Levee, portrayed indelibly by Chadwick Boseman in his final onscreen performance, blares constantly about the band he’s gonna put together and the records he’s gonna make. Between his ego a...

Discussion of news topics with a point of view, including narratives by individuals regarding their own experiences Netflix’s ‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’ features a Black queer icon. But it doesn’t do her justice. It’s a shame, because other films are finally getting Black lesbian relationships right (David Lee/Netflix; Lily illustration) Taylor Hosking Dec. 17, 2020 Gertrude “Ma” Rainey was “the mother of the blues,” a genre that helped lay the groundwork for today’s feminist ideals by telling stories of self-determined Black women navigating everyday racism and se...

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom is a fine adaptation of August Wilson’s play elevated by Chadwick Boseman, Viola Davis WedWednesday 16 updated ThuThursday 17 DecDecember 2020 at 2:23am Chadwick Boseman is best-known for playing T'Challa/Black Panther in the Marvel film Black Panther. ( Share Print text only Cancel For all the tributes that poured in for Chadwick Boseman, who passed away in August aged just 43, the most transfixing measure of his loss is what he put on screen. In Ma Rainey's Black Bottom — an anxious, sweat-soaked adaptation of August Wilson's acclaimed play about blues mu...