The film revolves around Usnavi (Anthony Ramos – Hamilton, A Star is Born), a New York bodega owner, who saves every penny he earns with a dream of owning a beach-front bar in the Dominican Republic. A framing device shows Usnavi, presumably on the beach he dreams of, telling his story to an enraptured audienceContinue reading “In the Heights”
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Judas and the Black Messiah
The inimitable Lakeith Stanfield plays FBI Informant (or Judas) Bill O’Neal in this biographical drama surrounding the betrayal of Fred Hampton (Daniel Kaluuya), chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party in 1960s Chicago – I’m not sure if this makes Hampton the Black Messiah or a very naughty boy. In 1968, 19-year-oldContinue reading “Judas and the Black Messiah”
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