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Django Unchained (2012)

Posted on July 7, 2013 by rorydean

“Django” ends up being textbook Tarantino theatrics, hardly more than his usual penchant for bedraggled morality tales, the sort of bop-prosody that fans soak up in cotton ball doses while others take away in granular appreciation. Continue reading →

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For Colored Girls (2010)

Posted on February 22, 2011 by rorydean

For Colored Girls is neither an ode to nor celebration of the original play and while it proclaims to, “paint an unforgettable portrait of what it means to be a woman of color in the modern world” it feels more like the convoluted outline to the important film it might have been. Continue reading →

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