Tag: Strange Fruit
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Jennifer Hudson is perfect casting in a familiar biopic with a few terrific scenes.
Joyce Glasser reviews Respect (September 10, 2021) Cert 12A, 145 mins. Jennifer Hudson was the late Aretha Franklin’s first choice to play the Queen of Soul in Liesl Tommy’s (director) […]
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The sensational Andra Day was destined to play Lady Day, in an otherwise lacklustre biopic.
The United States vs. Billie Holiday (from February 27, 2021 on Sky Cinema) Cert. 15, 130 mins. With Black Lives Matter sparking a re-evaluation of our cultural history, it is […]
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Actress Regina King’s triumphant and very timely directorial debut
One Night in Miami (January 15, 2021), Cert 15, 110 mins. Amazon Prime It is a sign of the times that one of the best films of the year is […]
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An ambitious biopic of Billie Holiday and her unlikely biographer promises more than it can deliver.
Billie (from November 13, 2020) Cert. 15, 98 min. Obsessed with the Jazz singer Billie Holiday, from the late 1960s until her death in 1978, Linda Lipnack Kuehl recorded 200 […]