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Film Review

Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins

by Cynthia Fuchs

[8.Feb.08] :. There's a not bad movie inside of Welcome Home, briefly visible in the quiet center provided by Margaret Avery, especially.

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The Hunting Party

by Cynthia Fuchs

[13.Sep.07] :. The sidetracking -- the lapses into corruption, black humor, and sarcasm -- all this is to be expected when your life is on the line so incessantly.

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DVD Film Review

Bobby (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[16.Apr.07] :. As reporter Warren Wilson remembers, "That would have been less of an impact on me, had I been shot [as he nearly was], than Kennedy being killed, stopped, in a moment in America's history, when we needed him and his advocacy more than ever before."

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Film Review

The Skeleton Key (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[12.Aug.05] :. For anyone with even passing knowledge of Southern gothics, Violet (Gena Rowlands) is all red flags.

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DVD Film Review

Baadasssss! (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[15.Sep.04] :. Mario Van Peebles came up understanding the power of images as a means to incite and reveal revolution.

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DVD Film Review

3-Way (2004)

by John G. Nettles

[28.Jun.04] :. Dwight Yoakam needs our support, and that's the only reason to watch 3-Way.

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Baadasssss! (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[28.May.04] :. At once the biography of Melvin Van Peebles as a young, angry, brilliant filmmaker (played by Mario, who looks achingly like his dad in a couple of shots, with cigar, sculpted face, and black hat), and his own biography.

 

Honey (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[4.Dec.03] :. Honey's so good that local hoochie mama just has to challenge her.

 

Antwone Fisher (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[28.May.03] :. 'I wasn't concerned with whether or not the audience liked Antwone at first.'"

 

Antwone Fisher (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[19.Dec.02] :. This single-mindedness can feel limited; there's obviously more to Antwone's story than the scenes in which he appears.

 
 
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