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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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Judas and the Black Messiah

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  • Title: Judas and the Black Messiah
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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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After Yang

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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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