• September 16, 2022
• Action, At Home, Drama

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...

• July 6, 2022
• Moviepie Musings

For everyone wishing Wakanda was real (like, you know, all of us), the upcoming movie The Woman King portrays the remarkable Agoji, the all-female warriors who protected the African...

• July 5, 2017
• At Home, Drama

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...

• October 16, 2016
• Action, Adventure, At Home, Drama

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 exploitation...

• December 23, 2014
• At Home, Drama, War

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...

• December 24, 2013
• At Home, Drama

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...

• September 23, 2012
• Action, At Home

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...