The 1994 American documentary film “Hoop Dreams” directed and produced by Steve James, Frederick Marx, and Peter Gilbert is regarded as one of the best documentaries ever made. During it’s nearly three hours runtime it follows William Gates and Arthur Agee, two African-American high school students, in Chicago and their dream of becoming professional basketball […]
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After the long Cinema break due to COVID-19 one of the biggest mainstream releases of this year finally arrives in cinemas after it has been postponed several times. I’m talking about “Tenet” the new film by popular British-American filmmaker Christopher Nolan (Memento, Dark Knight-Trilogy, Inception, Interstellar, Dunkirk). This is a short spoiler free review of
Cardi B released a new music video for her single WAP featuring Megan Thee Stallion.
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The 6-part US documentary series “Immigration Nation” by Christina Clusiau and Shaul Schwarz on Netflix is about the immigration system under Trump in the USA. The upsetting and moving episodes consist of interviews with the authorities of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Agency, border patrol, the HSI (Homeland Security Investigations) and the refugees and
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The new visual album film “Black is King” by Beyoncé is now available on Disney +. A huge amount of artists from the US and from countries in Africa such as Nigeria, Ghana and South Africa worked together to create a new creative visual music film based on Disney’s Lion King. The project is rich
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In 2018 I discovered electronic music producer Skee Mask from Munich when he released his album “Compro”. With a very rich and detailed palette of sounds and lots of exciting rhythms ranging from introverted ambient to more club-oriented. Since that release, he continued putting out excellent small projects and kept it fresh. He recently released
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Kanye West released a new music video for his recent single Wash Us in the Blood.
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Drake features on UK Drill artist Headie One’s new Track “Only You Freestyle” for the upcoming album “Edna”.
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The US comedy drama “Marriage Story” with Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson by Noah Baumbach from 2019 on Netflix is excellent. A sensitive portrait of a break-up marriage and at the same time of a family that stays together. The acting and the dialogues are excellent and especially Adam Driver and Laura Dern, in a
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Amazon Prime Video now feautures the most visually beautiful and finest art house film of 2019, “Portrait of a Lady on Fire” by Celine Sciamma from France. A historical drama about the relationship of a young aristocrat and a painter who is supposed to portray her. The framing, the light, the colours and the faces
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