The Butler
One of the seminal scenes in Lee Daniels’ The Butler is where Cecil Gaines takes his wife, Gloria, to the plantation camp where he grew up. As they scan the vacant cabins deep in grass, he tells her...
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Hollywood has a notoriously mixed track record with historical atrocities. Sometimes it turns out into something like Schindler’s List or Roots, while other times it winds up being overblown Oscar...
View ArticleDallas Buyers Club
Dallas Buyers Club is the true story of Ron Woodroof, a Dallas electrician and bull rider, who contracted AIDS in 1985, most likely from a septic needle or a female partner since he was a heterosexual...
View ArticleWar Horse
Set against a sweeping canvas of rural England and Europe during the First World War, “War Horse” begins with the remarkable friendship between a horse named Joey and a young man called Albert, who...
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When militants seize control of the U.S. embassy in Tehran during the height of the Iranian Revolution, CIA agent Tony Mendez (Ben Affleck) creates a fake Hollywood production in order to fool the...
View ArticleLincoln
Steven Spielberg helms his long-in-the-making biopic of Abraham Lincoln for DreamWorks and Touchstone Pictures. Daniel Day-Lewis portrays the former head of state in the Tony Kushner-penned adaptation...
View ArticleZero Dark Thirty
The Academy Award-winning duo behind The Hurt Locker (Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal) reteams for this drama detailing the hunt for Osama bin Laden, and starring Oscar-winner Jessica Chastain as the...
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Cecil Gaines has been a sharecropper’s boy who was raised in the 1920s as a household servant for the white colored family who also casually destroyed his. Eventually striking from their own, Cecil...
View Article12 Years a Slave
Based on an incredible true story of one man’s fight for survival and freedom. In the pre-Civil War United States, Solomon Northup (Chiwetel Ejiofor), a free black man from upstate New York, is...
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Electrician and occasionally rodeo rider, Ronlifestyles hard, which include major smoking, drinking, medicine make use of (mainly cocaine) and randeom intercourse. He could be a conventional:...
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