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Scene from "Stealing Chaplin." Fair use. British director Paul Tanter’s droll Stealing Chaplin may be a comedy that will keep audiences laughing from beginning to end. Still, the other movie it reminds me of is screenwriter Kemp Powers’s One Night in Miami. Although the latter is a heavy-hitting drama, the fanciful stories of both Miami and Stealing are loosely inspired by real-life events. In the case of the former, following his 1964 championship bout with Sonny Liston, Muhammad Ali really did spend much of the rest of the evening with Malcolm X, Jim Brown, and Sam Cooke in a Miami ...

Help Save People's World The economic crisis has hit People's World hard. We need the support of all our friends and readers to continue publishing. ‘The envelope please’: Darnella Frazier deserved an Academy Award April 27, 2021 10:51 AM CDT By Ed Rampell In this image from police body camera video, Darnella Frazier films former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin outside Cup Foods in Minneapolis on May 25, 2020. | AP The annual Academy Awards ceremony—wherein a pack of swag bag-shlepping celebs clad in brand...

Help Save People's World The economic crisis has hit People's World hard. We need the support of all our friends and readers to continue publishing. A crowning achievement: Fairy tale vs. reality in ‘The Crown’ April 23, 2021 12:07 PM CDT By Ed Rampell Olivia Colman, center, as Queen Elizabeth II, flanked by Josh O'Connor as Prince Charles, left, and Tobias Menzies as Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, right. | Netflix I write this as the annual Academy Awards ceremony approaches; Hollywood’s landmark Cinerama Dome, with i...

Greta Thunberg’s Quest to ‘Listen to the Science’ This stirring series about the Swedish campaigner against global warming is guaranteed to raise your temperature. In Greta Thunberg: A Year To Change the World, the Scandinavian teenager whom this documentary dubs as the planet’s “best known climate activist” spends twelve months traversing the globe looking for ways to address the impending climate catastrophe. The three-part series begins airing on PBS on Earth Day, April 22. “For me, hope is what makes you feel a meaning and get up and fight. I don’t...

Tony Espinosa as Kajani Jefferson in “American Skin” The undaunted 29th Pan African Film Festival kicked off on the last day of Black History Month and runs through March 14. I am a big fan of the work by actor/director/writer Nate Parker, which powerfully expresses Black consciousness and militancy in movies such as 2012’s Red Tails about the heroic Tuskegee Airmen who were antifascists before Antifa; 2007’s fact-based The Great Debaters, where Denzel Washington played a suspected Communist and proved Blacks can excel academically; and 2016’s The Birth of a Nation, which Parker d...