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Movie Breakdown: Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (Noah)

Pre-Screening Stance: August Wilson is an American master and his Pittsburgh Cycle is one of great feats of modern playwriting. Adaptations of plays can often times lounge in the static area of visual filmmaking but...

Movie Breakdown: Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

Pre-Screening Stance: A Denzel Washington-produced adaptation of an August Wilson play that stars Viola Davis and Chadwick Boseman (in his final on-screen appearance)? Yeah, that’s more than enough to get me excited about Ma Rainey’s...