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A visual album through Beyoncé makes its Disney debut. And Greta Gerwig’s adaptation “Women” is broadcast in Starz.
By Gabe Cohn
BLACK IS KING (2020) Disney Broadcast. This time last year, Beyoncé released “The Lion King: The Gift”, another significant album from Disney’s new high-tech version of “The Lion King” that brought together a list of foreign artists, adding Pharrell Williams, South African musician Moonchild. Sanelly, Jay-Z, Nigerian singer-songwriter Tiwa Savage and Cameroonian singer-songwriter Salatiel. The artists on this album rub shoulders with stars like Naomi Campbell and Lupita Nyong’o on this new visual album about “The Gift”, a rare film on an album itself in a movie.
BULL (2019) Broadcasts in Hulu; Amazon, Google Play, iTunes, Vudu and YouTube. Filmmaker Annie Silverstein looks at a rodeo rider physically and emotionally marked and her unlikely young man protected in this slow-burning drama. Don’t start as friends: Kris (Amber Havard), a teenager with a imprisoned mother and a poor-health grandmother, breaks into the space of a worn rodeo, Abe (Rob Morgan), and uses the space to have fun with her friends. Abe calls the police when he gets home. But instead of sending Kris to a juvenile detention center, Abe says she’s running for him to make up for the offense. The story of the bond that develops between them touches on the upheaval of racism, poverty and addiction. The film “treats heat disorders with bloodless eyes and a soothing tone,” Jeannette Catsoulis wrote in her review for the New York Times. “There is a concrete quality in making films,” he added, “a rejection of melodrama and an acceptance of naturalism that slows the film’s pulse and softens its contours.”
THE UMBRELLA ACADEMY Broadcast on Netflix. The superheroes of this comic e-book adaptation, an organization of adoptive brothers with supernatural talents, spent the first season of the series seeking to prevent an apocalypse. They are conned today and fell in the early 1960s in the season of the day, which begins with an adventure in time and instructs them to save the world.
WOMEN’S PETITAS (2019) 8pm in Starz. “I knew who the Marks were,” actress and filmmaker Greta Gerwig told the New York Times last year. “It was absorbed by the cloth of who I was.” He referred to the circle of relatives at the center of Louisa May Alcott’s novel “Women”. Gerwig had the opportunity to create his own edition of the old story in this film adaptation, the latest edition of the March 4 sister Civil War tale: Jo (Saoirse Ronan), Meg (Emma Watson), Beth (Eliza Scanlen) ) and Amy (Florence Pugh) – appropriate primary in Massachusetts. Gerwig blurs the chronology of Alcott’s plot, blocking the old story at a quiet pace. But the film remains “faithful enough to satisfy e-book lovers,” A.O. Said. Scott wrote in his review for The Times. “It’s as if the e-book has been cut and reassembled conscientiously,” he added, “their signatures were stitched up in an order that produces sparks of amazement and occasional episodes of delicious vertigo.”
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