Tag: The Color Purple
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My 20 top rated movies and TV shows of 2024
Time for a 2024 wrap up. If you’ve been here before, you know this website is dedicated to finding work by women directors and women leading actors to feature. The “best of” lists you see elsewhere don’t match this criteria, so my lists are always different. Here are the top 20 movies and TV shows…
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The Color Purple musical review
I know The Color Purple is meant to liberate Black women, but I’ve always loved it. I’ve read the book by Alice Walker multiple times, I’ve seen the original movie multiple times. What I had not done was see the Broadway musical version of the story or learn the music from that show. This film…
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Brain Dump: Klute, Dirty John vs. The Color Purple, Ellen DeGeneres
A few stray thoughts will tumble out of my head in this brain dump. Let’s spend a moment with Klute and Jane Fonda, Dirty John and The Color Purple, and Ellen DeGeneres Relatable.
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Review: Sorry to Bother You
Sorry to Bother You is one crazy piece of theater. The crazy works. It delivers a powerful punch in an imaginative package. Written and directed by Boots Riley, this is a tale about class, race, greed, exploitation, and love. Boots Riley is one of those fresh voices in American cinema people are always talking about.
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Gloria Steinem on “Chick Flicks”
Gloria Steinem blogs about books at Open Roads Media. The blog is called “Reading our way to the Revolution.” The once monthly column looks at a timeless and timely book. Her latest review is about The Group, a 1963 novel by Mary McCarthy. The Group is the latest review of a book that helped start…
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Jennifer Lawrence will Star in a Steven Spielberg Film
Just when I think I want to stop following Steven Spielberg on Twitter because he’s something of a jerk, he goes and decides to make a biopic about war photographer Lynsey Addario called It’s What I Do. Aw Yeah. #moviefilms #truth pic.twitter.com/GVfK6TQhuD — Steven Spielberg (@SpielbergSteve) March 4, 2015 Jennifer Lawrence signed on to star…
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Review: Beauty in Truth
Beauty in Truth, a film by Pratibha Parmar, is a documentary about American writer and activist Alice Walker. Predisposed to love it would be a good description of my attitude toward the film. I’m a lifelong admirer of Alice Walker. I have a tendency to finish her books and turn back to page 1 and…