Tag: Tessa Thompson

Passing is the directorial debut for Rebecca Hall who you might be more familiar with as an actor. She has had a fairly successful acting career with movies such as The Town (2010), Christine (2016), and Godzilla vs. Kong (2021). With Passing, Hall steps into the realm of writer and director. Irene (Tessa Thompson) is…
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Sylvie’s Love is a refreshing movie combining love, relationships, dreams, music, and television into one story. If it sounds ambitious that’s because it is. Set in the 1950’s in Harlem, Sylvie’s Love introduces us to the two main characters right away. Sylvie (Tessa Thompson) works in her father’s record shop and dreams of being in…
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Alex Garland really won me over with his last film Ex Machina in 2014. I love anything having to do with Artificial Intelligence so it was a sure bet that I was going to like it. It was one of my favorite sci-fi films ever so I was stoked to see his newest sci-fi film…
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This is the first directorial offering from Boots Riley and the concept is brilliant. Cassius (Lakeith Stanfield) works for a telemarketing company where he is paid on commission. At the beginning he struggles to make a sale until a coworker advises him to use his “white voice” and then his sales begin to skyrocket. His…
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