It’s probably not a coincidence that opening sequence shots in “Ophelia” resemble Kings Landing from “Game of Thrones”. The Disney like voice over in the prologue, “the story you don’t know”, quickly dispels the association that this will be anything as riveting as HBO’s bloodthirsty shock-value series. Lisa Klein’s novel might borrow names from Shakespeare, […]
Director Amma Asante continues to deliver important true stories about diverse relationships throughout history. Belle (2011) was a beautiful underappreciated film that functioned as a discovery picture for actress Gugu Mbatha-Raw (Miss Sloane). Asante reunites with Belle co-star Davenport, playing a larger part in this film. It’s the consistently impressive presence of David Oyelowo (Selma)
Risen offers a good rendition of the time during Christ’s crucifixion, resurrection, and transcendence as seen through the eyes of a skeptical Roman tribune who is charged with seeing that the crucifixion is carried out. Next, he’s to assure that the cave where the Nazarene’s body is placed has a huge stone rolled up to