Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven. Why shouldn’t Satan (Jennifer Plotzke) be given a starring role in the telling of Paradise? God allowed her to wreak havoc on mankind by seducing Eve (Pia Haddad) with an apple of knowledge. He left us behind as silly creatures lost in the throes of love without a conscious desire for more. With evil came understanding. With pain came meaning to joy. We wouldn’t be what we are for worse or better without Satan’s hand and thus maybe we should give…
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REVIEW: ’63 Boycott [2018]
Because today is Freedom Day. One of Kartemquin Films founders (a Chicago-based production studio of documentary films that’s found itself in the Oscar conversation once again with the feature Minding the Gap and this short) was at the school boycott coined “Freedom Day” in 1963 filming the march as a twenty one year old, three years before joining Jerry Temaner and Stan Karter to build the company. It’s only right then that Gordon Quinn would witness the continuation of those injustices fought against by Black citizens still creating a chokehold…
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