Block Party (2022) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
While it won’t become a definitive Juneteenth movie, “Block Party” makes for a wonderful family dramedy with Juneteenth acting as a featured part.
Drama
The human experience, sometimes at its most raw, is what you’ll find in the drama tag.
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Hello, Goodbye, and Everything In Between (2022) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
Thanks to her parents having a bad breakup and not living up to the high school sweethearts fantasy, a girl puts an endpoint on her high school romance, even if it could last forever.
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Summer Time Rendering: Season 1/ Episode 1 “So Long, Summer Days” [Premiere] – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
“Summer Time Rendering” presents a movie-level type of story which mixes the supernatural, a murder mystery, and apparently some groundhog day elements.
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The Lost Girls (2022) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
In “The Lost Girls,” legendary literary figure Peter Pan is used as an entry point to talk about generational trauma, mental illness, and feeling disconnected from reality.
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Beauty (2022) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
“Beauty” is heavily inspired by Whitney Houston’s story but by no means should be considered a “Dreamgirls” take on the legend’s life.
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Vodka (2022) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
With one of the greatest women she has ever known passing, Ivy tries to figure out how to honor her grandmother’s legacy.
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Hardboiled (2022) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
In this crime drama, an egg and pork chop are cops looking for justice since there is a murderer killing eggs by the dozen.
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More Than I Remember (2022) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
“More Than I Remember” presents a less palatable version of why people immigrate, in animated form, but is no less a story to behold.
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Tehura (2022) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
When your culture is commercialized and its history downplayed or erased, there are times you have to remind yourself and others that who you are isn’t for someone’s entertainment.
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Night Breakers (2022) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
In a seemingly post-apocalyptic world, the surface has soldiers who may kill people, and shadows have monsters. Let’s see if this group can get to their destination alive.
