A young boy and his grandmother have a run-in with a coven of witches and their leader. The peril is mild in this gorgeous but soulless remake, even though the future of all the world’s children is at stake. The Witches 2.0(20) didn’t cast its spell on me, though for children who haven’t seen Nicolas… The Witches (2020) Read More
Did You Wonder Who Fired The Gun? (New York Film Festival 2017) 3 stars
A documentary murder mystery about the filmmaker’s family, set in lower Alabama. It’s an odd title as who fired the gun that killed Bill Spann, a 46 year old African American man in Dothan, Alabama that night in 1946, is not in doubt. It was director Travis Wilkerson’s great grandfather, SE Branch, in his convenience… Did You Wonder Who Fired The Gun? (New York Film Festival 2017) Read More
The Rape Of Recy Taylor 4 stars
A young black woman in a long white dress runs along a road and through fields at dusk, repeatedly looking behind her. The footage is from a race film, movies made from about 1915 onwards, by black directors about black experiences, using mostly black casts. They enabled black stories to be told without the “white gaze”…. The Rape Of Recy Taylor Read More