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FST celebrates family bonds in diverse lineup of plays and musicals

As it marks 50 years, Florida Studio Theatre will some recent Broadway plays and original cabaret musicals to reach a wide audience.

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Film Review; Monster. : ThyBlackMan.com


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ThyBlackMan.com) Good courtroom dramas keep audiences hooked into a defendant’s fight for justice. The simpler the fight, the better. Just saying.
Screenwriters Janece Shaffer and Colen C. Wiley took their cues from the young adult novel 
Monster, which was written in 1999 by Walter Dean Myers. He was an author who wrote over 100 children/YA books during his 45-year-old career. Raised in Harlem he was greatly affected by his urban upbringing and many of his stories reflected on inner city life and the challenges he faced as a young
Black man. That’s the core of the plotline for this film, when it’s not obscured.

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'Monster' review: Netflix releases teen drama shelved for two years


Lindsey Bahr, AP Film Writer
"Monster," a courtroom drama starring Kelvin Harrison Jr., Jeffrey Wright, Jennifer Hudson and Jennifer Ehle that's premiering Friday on Netflix isn't actually new at all. 
Yes, it's adapted from an acclaimed book by the trailblazing author Walter Dean Myers about a Black teen who is in prison for the possible murder of a Harlem drugstore owner. It premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January of 2018 and has been sitting on various shelves since. It was acquired by one company, re-titled and planned for a fall 2019 release. But that didn't pan out and then late last year Netflix swept in and took it. 

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Monster cast buoys Netflix crime drama that doesn't quite meet moment


Monster cast buoys Netflix crime drama that doesn't quite meet moment
Monster.
Photo by Anna Kooris/Netflix
The reckoning over how Black people, and especially Black men, are too often regarded as threats by police and the public at large has been a long time coming. While there are examples of films confronting the issue going back decades, recent years have seen a notable uptick of filmmakers trying to illuminate something that has remained in the dark for much too long.
The latest film to do so is
Monster, which centers on Steve Harmon (Kelvin Harrison, Jr.), a clean-cut kid with a passion for filmmaking who happens to live in a not-so-good neighborhood in New York City. As the film begins, Steve is in jail for what we soon learn is being an accomplice to the murder of a convenience store clerk, a crime committed by neighborhood acquaintances Richard “Bobo” Evans (John David Washington) and William King (Rakim Mayers, aka ASAP Rocky) while trying to rob the store.

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MOVIE REVIEW by Richard Roeper
"MONSTER" Three stars Steve ........... Kelvin Harrison Jr. Mrs. Harmon ..... Jennifer Hudson Mr. Harmon ...... Jeffrey Wright Bobo ............ John David Washington
Netflix presents a film directed by Anthony Mandler and written by Radha Blank, Colen C. Wiley and Janece Shaffer. Rated R (for language throughout, some violence and bloody images). Running time: 99 minutes. Available now on Netflix.
** ** **
For 18 years, everything has been going Steve's way. He's a smart and warmhearted young man with wonderful parents, terrific friends, fantastic teachers and a future so bright he really does have to wear shades.
And then, in the span of maybe five minutes, it all falls apart. There's a man lying dead on the floor of his own store, and Steve is accused of being part of the chain of events that led to this tragedy. Now it's up to the courts and a jury to decide his fate.

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In 'Monster,' on Netflix: when matters of innocence and guilt get complicated


In ‘Monster,’ on Netflix: when matters of innocence and guilt get complicated
By Ty Burr Globe Staff,Updated May 7, 2021, 12:00 a.m.
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Kelvin Harrison Jr. in "Monster."NETFLIX © 2021/Associated Press
“Boy, man, human, monster: what do you see when you look at me?” The final lines of Walter Dean Myers’s 1999 novel “Monster” — and of the new Netflix movie made from it — echo through the story before you even hear them. The 17-year-old hero, Steven (Kelvin Harrison Jr.), is on trial for accessory to murder, accused of acting as a lookout in a bodega robbery in which the owner was shot to death. It’s Harlem; he’s a Black teenage male in a city and a country quick to judgment; the lead prosecutor labels him a “monster.” Steven’s also a gifted student at Manhattan’s Stuyvesant High School with a powerful urge to become a filmmaker and parents (played by Jeffrey Wright and Jennifer Hudson) who are middle-class professionals. He swears he’s innocent. What do you see when you look at him?

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'Monster' review: Netflix's provocative film about a good kid on trial


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Netflix presents a film directed by Anthony Mandler and written by Radha Blank, Colen C. Wiley and Janece Shaffer. Rated R (for language throughout, some violence and bloody images). Running time: 99 minutes. Available now on Netflix.
The still-timely and provocative crime procedural “Monster” has lingered in movie limbo since premiering at the Sundance Film Festival in 2018 but is now finally seeing the light of day thanks to — you guessed it — Netflix. Based on the popular and acclaimed 1999 book by Walter Dean Myers and adapted with style and a keen sense of pacing by music video and commercial director Anthony Mandler, “Monster” is a cautionary tale about a good kid who gets caught up with the wrong people at the wrong time and sees that bright future fading into the abyss — because even though he maintains he’s innocent, he’s a Black teenager accused of being an accessory to a deadly crime in the New York City of the 21

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Monster movie review & film summary (2021)


This is a movie that’s been sitting around for a while, having premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2018. Since then, several of its key stars have gone onto great things. Harrison has shown impressive range between “Luce” and “Waves.” Jerome won universal acclaim for his crucial role in the Ava DuVernay miniseries “When They See Us.” And Washington has starred in a couple of little movies called “BlacKkKlansman” and “Tenet.” Watching them here, in a time capsule of sorts as they were all on the verge of exploding into the culture, is one of the film’s few pleasures.

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Movie Review - Monster (2021)


Directed by Anthony Mandler.
Starring Kelvin Harrison Jr., Jeffrey Wright, Jennifer Hudson, Jennifer Ehle, Tim Blake Nelson, John David Washington, A$AP Rocky, Lovie Simone, Nas, Jharrel Jerome, Mikey Madison, Paul Ben-Victor, Dorian Missick, Jeremy Dash, Liam Obergfoll, Rege Lewis, Nyleek Moore, Joel Van Liew, Danny Henriquez, Adriana DeGirolami, Jonny Coyne, Roberto Lopez, Amanda Crown, and June Ballinger.
SYNOPSIS:
A smart, likable, 17-year-old film student from Harlem sees his world turned upside down when he’s charged with murder. We follow his dramatic journey through a complex legal battle.
On trial for a bodega robbery and murder Steven (the exceptional Kelvin Harrison Jr., always selecting intriguing projects) claims to have not taken any part; the 17-year-old observes that the fluorescent lighting drowns out the grays, only leaving white and black. Such is the case of a jury, tasked with only perceiving through the lens of guilty or not guilty. For music video director turned debut filmmaker Anthony Mandler (alongside equally inexperienced screenwriters Janece Shaffer and Colen C. Wiley adapting Walter Dean Myers’ novel), it’s a decent through-line for

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Monster cast buoys Netflix crime drama that doesn't quite meet moment


Monster cast buoys Netflix crime drama that doesn't quite meet moment
Monster.
Photo by Anna Kooris/Netflix
The reckoning over how Black people, and especially Black men, are too often regarded as threats by police and the public at large has been a long time coming. While there are examples of films confronting the issue going back decades, recent years have seen a notable uptick of filmmakers trying to illuminate something that has remained in the dark for much too long.
The latest film to do so is
Monster, which centers on Steve Harmon (Kelvin Harrison, Jr.), a clean-cut kid with a passion for filmmaking who happens to live in a not-so-good neighborhood in New York City. As the film begins, Steve is in jail for what we soon learn is being an accomplice to the murder of a convenience store clerk, a crime committed by neighborhood acquaintances Richard “Bobo” Evans (John David Washington) and William King (Rakim Mayers, aka ASAP Rocky) while trying to rob the store.

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