Nate Parker’s “American Skin” is a requiem on police violence and black trauma that clearly has no intention of having a nuanced conversation on the issues at its core. It’s a film that is plainly fed up with attempting to have a discussion at all — if only because, in real life, dialogue hasn’t led to substantive change: Black men and boys continue to be killed by police officers at a much higher rate than any other group, and huge racial disparities in how police use force continue to exist.
Parker clearly knows who his audience is, and who it isn’t — white people. But maybe that’s the point. It’s not so much that the movie aims to serve as a conduit for discourse, as much as it hopes to give its viewers — a restive black populace, frustrated with a country that refuses to reconcile with...
Parker clearly knows who his audience is, and who it isn’t — white people. But maybe that’s the point. It’s not so much that the movie aims to serve as a conduit for discourse, as much as it hopes to give its viewers — a restive black populace, frustrated with a country that refuses to reconcile with...
- 9/12/2019
- by Tambay Obenson
- Indiewire
Title: American Skin Director: Nate Parker Cast: Nate Parker, Omari Hardwick, Beau Knapp, Theo Rossi, Shane Paul McGhie, Milauna Jackson, Mo McRae, Tony Espinosa, Michael Warren, Allius Barnes, Wolfgang Bodison, Sierra Capri, Annalynne McCord, Ryan Mulkay, James Burns, Nicole Randall Johnson, Brighton Sharbino, Jahir Acosta, Evan Dodge, Kristofer Sykes, Karibel Rodriguez, Hunter Bodline. The […]
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- 9/4/2019
- by Chiara Spagnoli Gabardi
- ShockYa
Network: Hulu.
Episodes: Ongoing (half-hour).
Seasons: Ongoing.
TV show dates: February 8, 2019 — present.
Series status: Has not been cancelled.
Performers include: Maya Erskine, Anna Konkle, Mutsuko Erskine, Dylan Gage, Taj Cross, Taylor Nichols, Anna Pniowsky, Brady Allen, Lincoln Jolly, Ivan Mallon, Sami Rappoport, Melora Walters, Tony Espinosa, Brandon Keener, Dallas Liu, and Hannah Mae.
TV show description:
From co-creators and writers Maya Erskine, Anna Konkle, and Sam Zvibleman, the PEN15 TV show is an adult comedy about life as a middle school student, in the year 2000. Erskine and Konkle star as 13-year-old fictionalized versions of themselves, Maya Ishii-Peters and Anna Kone (respectively) and play off actual adolescent actors.
Maya and Anna are nothing...
Episodes: Ongoing (half-hour).
Seasons: Ongoing.
TV show dates: February 8, 2019 — present.
Series status: Has not been cancelled.
Performers include: Maya Erskine, Anna Konkle, Mutsuko Erskine, Dylan Gage, Taj Cross, Taylor Nichols, Anna Pniowsky, Brady Allen, Lincoln Jolly, Ivan Mallon, Sami Rappoport, Melora Walters, Tony Espinosa, Brandon Keener, Dallas Liu, and Hannah Mae.
TV show description:
From co-creators and writers Maya Erskine, Anna Konkle, and Sam Zvibleman, the PEN15 TV show is an adult comedy about life as a middle school student, in the year 2000. Erskine and Konkle star as 13-year-old fictionalized versions of themselves, Maya Ishii-Peters and Anna Kone (respectively) and play off actual adolescent actors.
Maya and Anna are nothing...
- 2/8/2019
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
This scattershot satire of the dark underbelly of 1950s suburbia feels like a movie the Coen brothers forgot to make. It is their script, which means the laughs still have bite. And the director is George Clooney, who's previously worked as an actor with the Coens, sometimes smashingly (O Brother Where Are Thou, Burn After Reading), sometimes not (Intolerable Cruelty). But the star, staying behind the camera here, lacks the instinct to go for the jugular the way the material demands. Clooney and his producing partner Grant Heslov updated the...
- 10/26/2017
- Rollingstone.com
Like a pub-rock cover band, “Suburbicon” can be bluntly effective when playing the old hits. Sure, it’s not the real deal, but if you get into the music, overlook a couple bum notes, and let the pints do their work, you can reasonably groove along. And that’s most certainly the case with George Clooney’s latest outing behind the camera, which finds the prominent actor/director/international megastar in full-on chameleon mode, aping the Coens, Hitchcock, and Billy Wilder to modestly satisfying effect.
The film gets a bit shakier when it lets its own voice crack through.
Clooney and writing partner Grant Heslov took a long-shelved Coen Brothers’ script and grafted it onto another project , the story of racial harassment in the ’50s model suburb of Levittown. The seams certainly show, as “Suburbicon” is basically two concurrent stories interwoven by the fact that both take place on the same block.
The film gets a bit shakier when it lets its own voice crack through.
Clooney and writing partner Grant Heslov took a long-shelved Coen Brothers’ script and grafted it onto another project , the story of racial harassment in the ’50s model suburb of Levittown. The seams certainly show, as “Suburbicon” is basically two concurrent stories interwoven by the fact that both take place on the same block.
- 9/2/2017
- by Ben Croll
- Indiewire
Here's a tough question: Do you judge Nate Parker's The Birth of a Nation as a film, or put the man behind it on trial as a former student at Penn State in 1999 who was accused of raping an 18-year-old woman – a crime for which he was acquitted. I'll leave the playing God stuff to social media, where it thrives, and stick to what's onscreen which, by any standard, is a monumental achievement.
The Birth of a Nation is a passion project for Parker, who labored for seven years...
The Birth of a Nation is a passion project for Parker, who labored for seven years...
- 10/4/2016
- Rollingstone.com
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