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One Battle After Another (2025)

October 5, 2025 Mikkel FrederiksenLeave a comment

Social satire with reality busting down the door without a warrant

Posted in ReviewsTagged 2020s, 2025, alana haim, benicio del toro, chase infiniti, dramedy, fascism, film review, john hoogenakker, kevin tighe, leonardo dicaprio, movie review, paul thomas anderson, racism, regina hall, sean penn, shayna mchayle, social commentary, social satire, starletta dupois, teyana taylor, wood harris

Sapphire (1959)

October 1, 2025 Mikkel FrederiksenLeave a comment

Tweed, soot, racism: England in the 50s

Posted in ReviewsTagged 1950s, 1959, basil dearden, bernard miles, film review, janet green, london, michael craig, movie review, murder investigation, nigel patrick, paul massie, police investigation, race relations, racism, united kingdom, yvonne buckingham, yvonne mitchell

Code Unknown (2000)

September 25, 2025 Mikkel FrederiksenLeave a comment

A jump, a skip, and a step into the lives of others

Posted in ReviewsTagged 2000, 2000s, alexandra hamidi, cannes 2000, code unknown, drama, film review, france, human nature, immigration, infidelity, josef bierbichler, juliette binoche, Luminita Gheorghiu, michael haneke, morality, movie review, non-linear, ona lu yenke, racism, thierry neuvic

Sinners (2025)

July 22, 2025 Mikkel FrederiksenLeave a comment

This little light of mine, I’m gonna let it shine (all over the place)

Posted in ReviewsTagged 2020s, 2025, action, andrene ward-hammond, deep south, delroy lindo, hailee steinfeld, helena hu, horror, jack o'connell, jayme lawson, michael b. jordan, miles caton, mississippi, movie review, racism, ryan coogler, sinners, supernatural, supernatural horror, vampire, yao

Chocolat (1988)

May 16, 2024 Mikkel Frederiksen1 Comment

The way we were

Posted in ReviewsTagged 1980a, 1980s, 1988, cameroon, chocolat, claire denis, colonialism, François Cluzet, french, french colonialism, Guilia Boschi, Isaach De Bankolé, jean-pol fargeau, memory, movie review, power structure, racism

In The Heat Of The Night (1967)

July 6, 2023 Mikkel FrederiksenLeave a comment

Ugly attitudes, beautiful handiwork

Posted in ReviewsTagged 1960s, 1967, buddy cop, haskell wexler, in the heat of the night, john ball, mississippi, murder, norman jewison, racism, review, rod steiger, sidney poitier, stirling siliphant

Mississippi Burning (1988)

September 12, 2022 Mikkel FrederiksenLeave a comment

1964 is 1988 is 2022

Posted in ReviewsTagged 1980s, 1988, alan parker, chris gerolmo, civil rights, fbi, gene hackman, justice, ku klux klan, mississippi, movies set in the 60s, racism, willem dafoe
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