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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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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 […]

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12 Strong

Film Review by Kam Williams   Adaptation of Best Seller Chronicles Exploits of Special Forces Unit Deployed to Afghanistan A few days after 9/11, President George W. Bush visited Ground Zero where he delivered his […]

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I, Tonya

Film Review by Kam Williams   Revisionist Biopic Recasts Disgraced Olympic Skater as Sympathetic Figure   On January 6, 1994, while waiting to compete in the U.S. Figure Skating Championship competition, top-ranked Nancy Kerrigan’s (Caitlin […]

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The Post

Film Review by Kam Williams   Hanks and Streep Co-Star in Spielberg Freedom of the Press Period Piece The Post is a picture fated to be compared to a couple of classic newsroom thrillers: All […]

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What Lies Upstream

Film Review by Kam Williams   Eco-Expose’ Warns of Dire Consequences of Unchecked Pollution On January 9, 2014, a coal industry cleansing agent called MCHM started leaking from an above-ground storage tank into West Virginia’s […]