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Red Sonja (1985)

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  • Title: Red Sonja (1985)
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Throwback Tuesday takes us back to the Hyborian Age and one of the worst sword and sorcery movies to come out of a pretty crappy genre. 1985’s Red Sonja stars model Brigitte Nielsen in her acting debut the sword-wielding She-Devil with a Sword who gained prominence in comics in the 1970s. Although Arnold Schwarzenegger gets top billing here, he’s a minor character who is obviously Conan but not Conan (as the film didn’t have the rights to use the character). Nielsen, with no real acting experience, is far from the worst thing about the film which is campy without being fun and ultimately a dreadful bore that makes Conan: The Destroyer look like Citizen Kane.

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The Inspection

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  • Title: The Inspection
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Written and directed by Elegance Bratton, and inspired by his real life experiences, Jeremy Pope stars as a gay, black, homeless man who joins the Marine Corp where he encounters brutal, and at time life-threatening, hazing from his training instructor (Bokeem Woodbine) and other recruits. It’s a deeply personal and harsh look not only at the intolerance and hate our main character finds in the Marines while succeeding where no one believes he can but also from his mother (Gabrielle Union) unable to cope or accept his sexuality.

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The Ghosts of Mississippi

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  • Title: The Ghosts of Mississippi
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Throwback Tuesday takes us back to 1991 and director Rob Reiner‘s biographical courtroom drama The Ghosts of Mississippi concerning the prosecution of white supremacist Byron De La Beckwith (James Woods) 30 years after he murdered civil rights activist Medgar Evers (James Pickens Jr.). With most of the movie set in the early 1990s, Alec Baldwin stars as Assistant District Attorney Bobby DeLaughter who picks up the threads of the case after meeting the victim’s widow Myrlie (Whoopi Goldberg) and attempts to get justice for the Evers family despite the trouble it stirs up around town and within his own family.

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Selma

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  • Title: Selma
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Released just months before the 50th anniversary of the historic civil rights march through Alabama, 2014’s Selma is most notable for David Oyelowo‘s lead performance of Martin Luther King Jr. and the unflinching framing of events from director Ava DuVernay and cinematographer Bradford Young who never shy away from the brutality of racism which King and others met with grace, strength, dignity, and perseverance to fight for the rights guaranteed to them by the 15th Amendment to the United States Constitution.

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Undercover Brother

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  • Title: Undercover Brother
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Wayback Wednesday takes us back to 2002 to a film spoofing the blaxploitation movies of the 1970s. Eddie Griffin stars as a “Soul Train reject with a Robin Hood complex” and fashion three decades out of style whose actions earn the attention of The B.R.O.T.H.E.R.H.O.O.D., a secret organization fighting for the Afro-American Way, who enlists the vigilante’s help in proving The Man is behind the sudden change in behavior of presidential candidate turned fried chicken aficionado General Warren Boutwell (Billy Dee Williams).

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