Most film historians have exiled Spencer Williams to the fringes of cinema history, a situation based on both his race and the circumstances in which he worked. During the 1940s, he was the only prolific African American director – albeit in a series of cheaply-made, independently-produced features for a company out of Dallas that were distributed for exhibition in racially segregated cinemas serving the nation’s black population.
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As it is the 30th Anniversary of Fantasia, we (well, I on behalf of the team and site) will reshare reviews we’ve done for the fest including those done during the fest and those done for films that have played at the fest that we reviewed at other times to give an idea of the scope of Fantasia and how important it is for the film industry as a whole.
A man decides to make a documentary about his father’s life while attempting to lead him to sobriety. Soon he finds that perhaps his father has other ideas.
Some things, once they reach their limit, cannot be contained. A pimple is one of them.
A police officer in an overcrowded, climate change-ravaged New York investigates a rich man’s death that might connect to the new foodstuff SOYLENT GREEN. The dystopian sci-fi police procedural hits 4k UHD& Blu-ray from Arrow this month.
