Pam Grier stars in this 1973 blaxploitation thriller as nurse turned vigilante Flower Child “Coffy” Coffin who sets her sights on revenge after her younger sister (Karen Williams) gets addicted to cocaine and her oldest friend (William Elliott) is beaten within an inch of his life for refusing to go on the take by the other local cops.
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Released in early 2021 to critical acclaim, Judas and the Black Messiah explored 1960s tensions between police, and the Federal Government, and the African-American community. Inspired by true events, thief and con man “Wild” Bill O’Neal (LaKeith Stanfield) is turned into FBI informant by the agency desperate to quell the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party and the popularity and influence of its chairman Fred Hampton (Best Supporting Actor Daniel Kaluuya) in the late 1960s.
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Throwback Thursday takes us back to 1980 and a workplace comedy that would be a hit with both critics and audiences, create a hit number one single on the Billboard charts, and launch Dolly Parton into a new career as a movie star. The film would earn spots on three different AFI lists (including 100 Years…100 Laughs) and later inspire both a TV-series and a Broadway musical.
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After Yang examines the lives of a family after the robotic nanny (Justin H. Min) to their daughter (Malea Emma Tjandrawidjaja) becomes unresponsive. The parents (Colin Farrell and Jodie Turner-Smith) are forced to face some hard truths about how much they relied on Yang who became far more of just a teacher of Chinese traditions to their adopted daughter but a loving older brother whose existence it turns out was more complex than anyone in the family truly understood.
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Narrated by Miranda July, Fire of Love makes use of archive footage from Katia and Maurice Krafft and their friends to chronicle the careers of the married French volcanologists and their love affair with volcanoes which eventually took their lives in 1991. While offering some insight into the pair and the course of their relationship, which earned them fame outside their chosen profession struggling to make people aware of both the dangers and beauty of volcanoes, the documentary is most notable for the incredible amount of close-up video of erupting volcanoes captured by the Kraffts over the years.
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