Hints and tips:
...The real villains in Back to Black are the fiendish paparazzi....
...In a biblical Jerusalem where Black lives are oppressed by occupying Rome, the mood becomes sombre....
...She is unsure what to do next, appalled by the killing of Black Florida teenager Trayvon Martin and worried about her elderly mother. This first act can feel uncentred....
...The trope-ish black fiction Monk takes such umbrage at can now feel fractionally dated....
...To begin, for long moments, there is only a black screen, and a semi-musical howl on the soundtrack. If this were the whole film, it might say it all. But Glazer has other ideas to explore....
...The set pieces come with striking details: ink-black splashes of Harkonnen fireworks, the bass thud of bodies falling from on high. Villeneuve is often the most fun when at his grimmest....
...For much of the film, the only other adult is head cook Mary Lamb (Da’Vine Joy Randolph), a lone black woman in this bastion of moneyed white men and boys. Her own son, we learn, died in Vietnam....
...Once Bella leaves England for adventure overseas, the movie shifts from silvery black-and-white to ultra-vivid colour....
...Now though, we have Priscilla, Sofia Coppola’s evocative study of the woman behind the man in black leather: a counterargument in pink angora....
...We duly watch time-capsule scenes of vaccination programmes and Black Lives Matter protests....
...The timeline starts ticking on the bright, black-and-white morning in 1940s Manhattan, when another conductor’s flu gives their understudy his debut at Carnegie Hall....
...The film can be a treat to look at, shot mostly in glowing, milky black and white. And performances range from sturdy to superlative....
...Braves rejoice in slo-mo under raining black gold. (What more telling omen of modernity than a crackerjack Scorsese set-piece?) American norms soon appear upended....
...Directed by Iranian-British filmmaker Babak Jalali, Fremont has the feel of a hip indie movie from the 1980s heyday of Jim Jarmusch: shot in black and white with a wry, absurdist eye....
...Consider so called Black Out nights, an innovation (if “segregation, but in a right on way” can be considered innovative) to encourage more Black people to attend theatres by inviting an “an all-Black-identifying...
...At times, the wacky rancour aimed at Wall Street puts you in mind of The Big Short, Adam McKay’s black farce of the 2008 financial crash....
...Former staff writers on Orange is the New Black, for them the project was both potential landmark and fiendish challenge. “This was not the easiest screenplay,” Angelo says....
...Here’s another Danny Boyle-directed opening ceremony, almost as epic as his London Olympics one in 2012....
...Bologne is also black, his mother an enslaved Senegalese woman. In adulthood, he is charismatically played by Kelvin Harrison Jr....
...Another precision engineer, Wes Anderson, stitched a Hitchcock motif into his new film Asteroid City: Scarlett Johansson glimpsed as a black-and-white blonde on a fast-moving train....
...The storytelling is fumbled too, key scenes saddled with flashbacks and distracting flips between black-and-white and colour. When Oppenheimer needs a spotlight, Nolan puts on a firework display....
...On screen, a hefty spoonful of sugar was added back into fairy tales grown gnarled in films such as The Black Cauldron....
...And into this black-market life steps an opaque Englishman: Daniel (Joe Alwyn), staying in the international hotel where Trish hopes to blag a buffet breakfast. The two are soon a pair....
...Around the same time, Arpa had the idea of producing a line of affordable watches for sale exclusively to martial arts practitioners who had reached the black belt standard....
...The outer box is a pastiche black-and-white TV show, our host (Bryan Cranston) arriving with a hint of The Twilight Zone....
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