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Author: Nikki Fowler

Reviews 

THE WORST ONES – Review by Nikki Fowler

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Cannes Un Certain Regard winner The Worst Ones digs deep into the successful French filmmaking trend of casting non-actors or street performers for roles in films that mimic the person’s real-life stories. In this film, the cast/characters are troubled children and teens from an impoverished housing tenement in the town of Boulogne-sur-Mer in northern France.

A Belgian indie filmmaker, Gabriel, played by Johan Heldenbergh, is making a feature film debut entitled Pissing in the North Wind, for which he and his production crew are auditioning community kids to cast the most unexpected and troubled to play the film’s characters. Nobody in the community quite understands what he is doing or why — not even those who are chosen to perform.

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Reviews 

UNPRISONED – Nikki Fowler reviews

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Hulu’s Unprisoned is a thought-provoking yet hysterically funny eight-episode series by creator, writer, and relationship expert Tracy McMillan. McMillan isn’t new to TV writing and has scripted for Mad Men, Runaways, Life on Mars, and Chase, among other popular shows. Loaded with banter and buzzwords from McMillan’s self-help expertise, Unprisoned is a series you’ll need a pen and pad to take notes for because you’ll feel like you’re getting free self-help advice with every episode. You might want to add a glass of wine and buckle up for the therapeutic and uproariously funny ride.

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Interviews 

Series Creator Tracy McMillan chats UNPRISONED – Nikki Fowler interviews

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Unprisoned, the thought-provoking yet hysterically funny eight-episode series on Hulu, is the work of creator, writer, and relationship expert Tracy McMillan. She’s also a popular self-help blogger and social media influencer. Loosely based on McMillan’s own struggles to reunite with her estranged father after he was released from prison after 19 years, Unprisoned stars Kerry Washington as Paige who is, like McMillan, a relationship therapist and single mom whose life is turned right-side-up when her dad, Edwin (charismatic Delroy Lindo) gets out of prison and moves into her house to live with her and her teenage son.

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Commentaries 

African-American Film Critics Association Awards – Nikki Fowler reports

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The African-American Film Critics Association’s (AAFCA) awards ceremony, held on March 1 at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel, marked a much-deserved moment of celebration for Black creators and actors who’ve been unexpectedly snubbed by other awards groups this year. Although no longer tagged as #OscarsSoWhite, the Academy Award nominations slate had glaring omissions of Black creatives and actors, including Gina-Prince Bythewood and The Woman King, Chinouye Chukwu and Till and Elegance Branton and The Inspection, and all of the brilliant talent associated with those and other superb Black films.

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