When I walked out of the theater after seeing The Woman King, I marveled to a group of women, "This is such an interesting piece of history… I can't believe there's never been a movie made about these…
In a performance that will inevitably draw comparisons to his role as Martin Luther King Jr. in Selma, David Oyelowo stars as Khama, the heir to the throne of the British-ruled African country of what…
I think the screenwriter of this film must have read the bestseller King Leopold's Ghost, which describes in fascinating and appalling detail the Belgium monarch's greed-driven pillaging and exploitat…
It is hard to dislike a movie that has such earnestness behind it; a movie with a story that deserves, no, needs to be told to Westerners. There are certain conflicts that are so epic yet so distant t…
The release of Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom could not have been more timely. I saw a press screening within a week of his death being announced, which prompted a worldwide outpouring of commemoration…
If Machine Gun Preacher weren't based on a true story, it would seem to be a typical made-for-Hollywood plot. Gerard Butler plays Sam Childers who, at the beginning of the film, is being released from…
