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“Every Body” is a moving, fascinating look at a too-often-ignored subset of the world’s population, filled with empathy and understanding but also a cool, analytical anger about what history has put them through. The subject is intersex people, the slightly-more-than one percent of individuals who were born with a condition that complicated the state’s ability to identify…

Jean (Rosy McEwen) is dying her hair blonde on a quiet night in. The only noise is the sound of a dating show on her television. Her eyes are blue, but soon we notice that so much of the world around her is also blue. Her bathroom is a pretty pale blue, and so is…

With “Air,” “Tetris,” and “BlackBerry,” the last few months have borne both spring flowers and corporate biographies that mythologize well-known products and brands. Their narrative arcs follow a relatively familiar pattern: under-appreciated visionaries and everyday workers unite to face setbacks and product deadlines to go on to revolutionize their respective industries. The stories may not…

The 2023 American Black Film Festival (ABFF) will take place live in Miami Beach from Wednesday, June 14th, through Sunday, June 18th, followed by a virtual segment from Monday, June 19th, through Sunday, June 25th, on ABFF PLAY (https://abffplay.com/), and aims to showcase the best of emerging artists from the U.S and Internationally. Read moreA Guide…

The Foundation for the Augmentation of African Americans in Film (FAAAF) will host The LightReel Film Festival (LFF) in Washington, D.C. from Thursday, June 8th, through Saturday, June 10th. The LightReel Film Festival is an annual showcase that began in 2019 for cinematic talent to serve as an opportunity to inform, collaborate, entertain, and educate its audience through the cinematic…

The argument of separating the artist from the art is something of a cop-out, and to do so, in this case, would be irresponsible and an insult to victims of abuse; Shia LaBeouf and his actions are another knot in a lengthy and tangled web of gendered violence, and while there are no easy answers or solutions,…

There are a lot of secrets threatening to come out in the new miniseries The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart. Adapted from the novel, The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart follows Alice(Alycia Debnam-Carey) who loses her parents in a fire and moves in with her grandmother June (Sigourney Weaver). source: Amazon Prime Read moreA Guide…

Italian filmmaker Pietro Marcello’s follow-up to his acclaimed epic Martin Eden, Scarlet is a gorgeously mounted French-language production that tells the tale of a young woman (played by radiant newcomer Juliette Jouan) who believes that one day, scarlet sails will spirit her away from the painfully provincial village she calls home. Loosely adapted from Alexander…