Michael B Jordan

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  • Black Panther

    Movie Review | Ali Gray | 9th February 2018

    One thing the Marvel Cinematic Universe does not need more of is white privilege. Tony Stark with his billion dollar problems. Captain America with his government sanctioned patriotism. Thor, the blonde-haired blue-eyed Norse God with claims to the throne. Peter Quill, the self-appointment Star-Lord, the so-called guardian of the galaxy. We're good for white dudes. Arriving far too late to the party is King T'Challa, a storied hero from Africa with a rich heritage who is finally breaking the unremitting streak of white heroes on the Marvel payroll. Without wanting to disservice the people of colour who have served the MCU well to date - Anthony Mackie, Zoe Saldana and let's not forget Samuel L motherfucking Jackson - Black Panther is the character that the Marvel universe, the movie industry and the entire world needs right now. It's hard to imagine a more righteous movie arriving at a more necessary time.

  • Fruitvale Station

    Movie Review | Ed Williamson | 3rd June 2014

    I've always thought the point of found footage movies is to get across the idea that the amateur camera operator faced some sort of danger in filming the incidents, and transfer that danger to the viewer. Their marketing campaigns, from Blair Witch onwards, have usually tried to build a world in which the shocking footage is real and place you within it, some more successfully than others. Fruitvale Station, based on and extrapolating from real footage of a terrible event, shows why that shock value is so hard to replicate.

  • Red Tails

    Movie Review | Rob | 8th June 2012

    A long time ago in a ranch far, far away...
    It is a dark time for George Lucas. Forced to put his
    WWII project on hold and desperate to tell the stories of
    the Tuskegee Airmen, the first African-American fighter pilot

    squadron, Lucas was told 'No' by the evil studios, who deemed
    a film with an all black cast unmarketable. 23 years later, a time
    when Hollywood wasn't quite so racist, Lucas finally made his film,
    thanks to galactic bucks from his own, overflowing Death Star wallet.