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March 9, 2016 The Skanner Page 7 Arts & Entertainment cont’d from pg 6 images) Drone warfare drama about a military commander (Helen Mirren) based in Great Britain who finds her- self facing an ethical question when she is in- formed by a pilot (Aar- on Paul) that a 9 year- old girl (Aisha Takow) has just entered the kill zone of a targeted ter- rorist cell. Cast includes Alan Rickman, Barkhad Abdi and Phoebe Fox. Hello, My Name Is Doris (R for profanity) Sally Field stars in this romantic dramedy as a shy spinster inspired by a self-help guru (Pe- ter Gallagher) to pur- sue the young co-work- er (Max Greenfield) she has a crush on. With Wendi McLendon-Cov- ey, Stephen Root and Beth Behrs. LOLO (Unrated) Ro- mantic romp revolving around a 40 year-old fashionista (Julie Delpy) who falls head-over- heals for a computer nerd (Danny Boon) she meets while vaca- tioning at a trendy spa with a girlfriend (Kar- en Viard). Supporting cast includes Vincent Lacoste, Antoine Loun- guine and Christophe Vandevelde. (In French and English with subti- tles) Me Him Her (Unrat- ed) Out-of-the-closet comedy about a young slacker (Dustin milli- gan) who ventures to L.A. to help his TV star friend (Luke Bracey) find the courage to let the world know he’s gay. With Haley Joel Os- ment, Geena Davis, Alia Shawkat and Casey Wil- son. Remember (R for vi- olence and profanity) Cat-and-mouse thriller revolving around an addlepated Auschwitz survivor’s (Christopher Plummer) attempt to track down the Nazi fugitive (Jurgen Proch- now) who’d slaughtered his entire family during the Holocaust. Featur- ing Martin Landau, Dean Norris and Bruno Ganz. (In English and German with subtitles) Yalom’s Cure (Un- rated) Prestige biopic about Dr. Irvin Yalom, a best-selling author considered by many to be the most influential, American psychothera- pist of the 20th Century. Police Shootings Influence Crime Fiction Genre By Hillel Italie AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — In “Underground Airlines,” an upcoming novel by Ben Winters, a Black bounty hunter rides through a poor neigh- borhood in Indianapolis alongside a white police- man. “As we crossed Broad Ripple Avenue,” Win- ters writes, “we passed a small knot of black kids, laughing and walking together on the narrow sidewalk; one of them, a short kid pushing a bike, wore a hoodie pulled low over his eyes. Cook slowed down and gave a blurp of the siren, ges- tured at the kid to make sure his face was show- ing. I caught the kid in the mirror with his mid- dle finger aloft, a min- iature of impotent rage frozen in the side-view as we drove away.” Winters could imag- ine the scene simply by following the news. The wave of police killings that helped launch the Black Lives Matter move- ment is also influencing a genre that captured tensions between police and non-white commu- nities well before the rise of social media and cellphone videos. Pub- lishers and writers say that story lines known to readers of Gary Phillips or Walter Mosley or El- eanor Taylor Bland will likely become more com- mon and intense. “When you’re writing a book, you’re not in an isolation chamber,” said Winters, who in “Under- ground Airlines” depicts slavery still being legal in the U.S. “This particular issue has long and faithful- ly been represented in crime fiction,” said Joshua Kendall, editor-in-chief of the crime fiction im- print Mulholland Books, Winters’ publisher. “It’s simply that much of the fiction has been over- looked, just as the actual rate of abuse overlooked by media until now. That said, we need and want more fiction about it. The curiosity, concern and appetite seem to have fi- nally grown.” David Baldacci’s novel “The Last Mile,” sched- uled for April, tells of a black man on death row and the likelihood he was TAYLOR CARPENTER/ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION VIA AP Movies This Feb. 17, 2016 photo shows author Trudy Nan Boyce, a retired Atlanta Police Department officer, posing for a portrait in Atlanta, to promote her debut novel, “Out of the Blues.” Boyce is currently working on a new book about the murder of students at Spelman College, a prominent black liberal arts school in Atlanta, and the protests that follow when the suspects are not identified. She says the currently untitled novel was inspired in part by the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. wrongly convicted. Mos- ley, best known for “Dev- il in the Blue Dress” and other novels featuring the black detective Easy Rawlins, says he has been working on a book about a former New York City policeman investigating the shooting of two offi- cers by a black man and learning that the officers had tried to kill the man first. “In the end he realiz- es that he has to come to some kind of under- standing about how the system works, that his own sense of law and justice is never going to work for him,” says Mos- ley, who is calling the novel “Detective, Heal Thyself.” Read the rest of this story at TheSkanner.com
