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The Photograph opened in theaters across the country. Not long after, Tayarisha Poe’s Miss Juneteenth went out virtually. Maïmouna Doucouré raised a ruckus when her controversial coming-of-age tale, Cuties, dropped on Netflix, the same streaming service that gave us Gina Prince-Bythewood’s ass-kicking actioner The Old Guard. And Garrett Bradley directed one of the best documentaries of the year, Time. (It’s a shame we didn’t get Nia DaCosta’s much-anticipated Candyman reboot, which was slated for 2020 but is now scheduled to open this August.) Advertisement At the moment, all...
The best films of 2020 revealed - and the winner is streaming on Netflix The National Board of Review has named Spike Lee's Da 5 Bloods, Sound of Metal starring Riz Ahmed and Disney's Soul as the best of 2020 Updated Spike Lee’s Vietnam War movie Da 5 Bloods was named the year’s best film by the US National Board of Review (Image: (Netflix/PA)) Sign up for our What's On newsletter - for all the latest whether you're staying in or heading out and aboutInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Subscribe When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you ...
The road to Radha Blank’s intimate and hilariously autobiographical debut film, “The Forty-Year-Old Version,” began with her losing her first screenwriting job. Blank puts it even more bluntly. “One of my roles as an artist is to demystify things,” she says. “I got fired off that job. And I just wanted to create something I couldn’t get fired from.” A longtime struggling playwright, Blank developed her life story into a script about a 40-something Harlem-based theater artist who finds an unexpected outlet as an amateur rapper. “It was not my initial intention to make it as ...
Courtesy Of Jeong Park/netflix PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST Blank plays a onetime wunderkind hitting middle age in her fresh, funny comedy. Our streaming entertainment options are overwhelming — and not always easy to sort through. This week, I caught up with playwright and TV writer Radha Blank's The Forty-Year-Old Version, a Netflix original that is popping up on some 2020 "best of" lists. The deal When she appeared on a prestigious "30 under 30" list, playwright Radha (Blank) th...