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Call Me by Your Name

Film Review by Kam Williams   Gay Teen Seduces Dad’s Doctoral Student in Adaptation of Bittersweet Bildungsroman Dateline: Lombardy, 1983. 17 year-old Elio Perlman (Timothee Chalamet) is spending another summer in Northern Italy. Each year, […]

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Where’s Daddy?

Film Review by Kam Williams   Searing Expose’ Indicts Child Support System as Racist and Rigged against Black Men Today, there’s a cultural consensus that the criminal justice system aggressively targets and imprisons African-Americans. Might […]

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2018 Oscar Nominations

by Kam Williams   The Shape of Water Leads Race with Lucky 13 Nominations Weinstein, Spacey and Franco Conspicuously Absent The Shape of Water, Guillermo del Toro’s surreal, cross-species love story landed the most Academy […]

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Molly’s Game

Film Review by Kam Williams   Jessica Chastain Plays Skier-Turned-Felon in Warts-and-All Biopic Molly Bloom (Jessica Chastain) was the third-ranked downhill skier in North America when her dream of representing the U.S. in the 2002 […]

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Mama Africa: Miriam Makeba

Film Review by Kam Williams   Reverential Biopic Chronicles Rise, Fall and Triumphant Return of Legendary South African Singer/Activist Zenzile Miriam Makeba had the misfortune of being born black in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1932, […]

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Trevante Rhodes

The “12 Strong” Interview with Kam Williams   A Spirited Tête-à-Tête with the Talented Athlete-Turned-Thespian Trevante Nemour Rhodes was born in Ponchatoula, Louisiana on February 10, 1990, but raised in Little Elm, Texas from the […]