Black Panther (2018) - Movie Review

 

The plot: After the death of his father, T'Challa (Chadwick Boseman) is set to take his place as the king of the hidden African country of Wakanda. However, frictions within his own inner circle begin to present themselves, largely connected to the continued presence of arms dealer Ulysses Klaue (Andy Serkis) as well as the arrival of former U.S. black ops soldier Erik Killmonger (Michael B. Jordan), both of whom seek to disrupt Wakanda even more. T'Challa, donning the mantle of Black Panther, must save his people and come to grips with what he must do to be a true king.

Queen Of Katwe (2016) - Movie Review

We’ve seen standard marketing when it comes to films with posters and banner ads, traditional marketing with trailers, viral marketing with web videos… this one succeeds at being bizarre without necessarily being obvious about it. This film is based on a true story (because of course it is) but the marketing that we kept getting for it over here wasn’t of the usual Oscar-ready trailer variety. Instead, it seemed to want to bring to attention how much the story itself affected the people involved in the film… and in turn, bringing forward more of the fiction than the reality than most of these real-life drama films end up trying for. I mean, when pretty much every one of these films is a slideshow to try and more closely connect the real events to how the filmmakers depict them, this is a weird way of going about things, especially when the “trailer” detailing all this was shown at a much higher frequency. After the last couple instances concerning history on film, and how expectations are still capable of playing into how a film is received, I’m justifying this tangent of an introduction.