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Oscars 2018 – Who Should Win? (Part Two)
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Fences
During the 1950s Blacks were continuing the “Northern migration” from the Jim Crow oppression in the south to the northern states. Blacks felt that in the North at least some jobs were available to them without the overt segregation of the South. Those jobs were almost entirely of the menial variety with the understanding that…
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Oscars 2017 – Who Should Win? (Part Two)
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The Magnificent Seven
It seems as if every year, cinephiles are forced to reckon with an increasingly cyclical lineup of films. Beginning of the year throwaways; spring surprises; summer blockbusters; fall inbetweeners (I’ll explain); and winter Oscar bait. The inbetweeners always tend to be interesting. They’re the films that have the feel of the summer blockbuster, but also…
