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Kam’s Kapsules: Movies Opening Friday, May 13, 2016
BIG BUDGET FILMS
The Darkness (PG-13
for profanity, mature
themes, disturbing vio-
lence and brief sensuali-
ty) Supernatural horror
flick about a family which
unwittingly brings back
a demonic force from its
Grand Canyon vacation.
Co-starring Kevin Bacon,
Radha Mitchell, Jennifer
Morrison, Ming-Na Wen
and Lucy Fry.
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who, along with his crew
and producer (Julia Rob-
erts), is taken hostage
by an irate viewer (Jack
O’Connell) after a stock
George Clooney plays the host of an investment advice show who’s
taken hostage by a viewer in ‘Money Monster’
Money Monster (R
for brief violence, some
sexuality and pervasive
profanity) High-octane
crime thriller about a
bombastic host (George
Clooney) of an invest-
ment advice TV show
he’d promoted mysteri-
ously tanks. With Dom-
inic West, Giancarlo
Esposito and Caitriona
Balfe.
INDEPENDENT &
FOREIGN FILMS
I Am Wrath (R for
profanity and violence)
Revenge thriller about a
grieving widower (John
Travolta) who takes the
law into his own hands
after corrupt cops fail to
find his wife’s (Rebecca
De Mornay) killer. With
Amanda Schull, Chris-
topher Meloni and Sam
Trammell.
Last Days in the Desert
(PG-13 for disturbing im-
ages and brief partial nu-
dity) Biblical saga revolv-
ing around Jesus’ (Ewan
McGregor) 40-day battle
with the devil while pray-
ing and fasting in the des-
ert. Cast includes Ciaran
Hinds, Susan Gray, Tye
Sheridan and Ayelet Zu-
rer.
Love & Friendship (PG
for mature themes) Ad-
aptation of “Lady Susan,”
the Jane Austen novella
about a beautiful wid-
ow’s (Kate Beckinsale)
search for husbands for
herself and her daughter
(Morfydd Clark) while
living on the estate of
her well-heeled in-laws.
With Chloe Sevigny,
Xavier Samuel and Ste-
phen Fry.
Pele: Birth of a Leg-
‘Pele: Birth of a Legend’ is the story of the legendary soccer player’s rise from the slums of Sao Paulo to
lead Brazil to its first World Cup victory.
end (PG for smoking,
mature themes and mild
epithets) Soccer boiopic
chronicling the legend-
ary Pele’s (Kevin de Pau-
la) rise from the slums
of Sao Paulo to lead Bra-
zil to its first World Cup
victory when he was just
17 years-old. With Colm
Meaney, Vincent D’Onof-
rio and Rodrigo Santoro.
Search Party (R for
drug use, sexuality,
graphic nudity and per-
vasive profanity) Road
comedy about the bud-
dies (T.J. Miller and
Adam Pally) of a jilted
groom’s (Thomas Mid-
dleditch) attempt to help
him find the bride (Shan-
non Woodward) after
she leaves for their Mex-
ican honeymoon without
him. With J.B. Smoove,
Alison Brie and Lance
Reddick.
Sundown (R for crude
sexuality, graphic nudi-
ty, pervasive profanity,
teen partying and drug
use) Spring Break come-
dy about a couple of BFFs
(Devon Werkheiser and
Sean Marquette) who
travel to Puerto Vallarta
hoping to hook up with
their high school crush-
es. With Teri Hatcher,
Camilla Belle and Sara`
Paxton.
Sunset Song (R for
sexuality, nudity and vi-
olence) Coming-of age
epic, set in 1910, about a
Scottish farm girl (Agy-
ness Deyn) torn between
tradition and change.
Cast includes Kevin
Guthrie, Peter Mullan
and Jim Sweeney.
BOOK REVIEW: From #Black Lives
Matter to Black Liberation
By Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Haymarket Books
Paperback, $17.95
286 pages
ISBN: 978-1-60846-562-0
Book Review by Kam Williams
“The eruption of mass protests in the
wake of the police murders of Michael
Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and
Eric Garner in New York City have
challenged the impunity with which
officers of the law carry out violence
against Black people and punctured
the illusion of a postracial America.
The Black Lives Matter movement has
awakened a new generation of activ-
ists.
In this stirring and insightful anal-
ysis, activist and scholar Keeanga-Ya-
mahtta Taylor survey the historical
and contemporary ravages of racism
and persistence of structural inequal-
ity such as mass incarceration and
Black unemployment. In this con-
text, she argues that this new struggle
against police violence holds the po-
tential to reignite a broader push for
Black liberation.”
—Excerpted from the Bookjacket
H
ow did the Black Lives Matter
movement manage to emerge
at a time when so many peo-
ple considered America to
be post-racial? After all, the nation
had not only elected its first Afri-
can-American president in 2008,
but had witnessed an emergence of
black political elites both in Wash-
ington, D.C. and in so many cities
Author Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
across the land.
Recall how the Congressional
Black Caucus, led by John Lewis, en-
dorsed Hillary Clinton while ques-
tioning Bernie Sanders’ civil rights
credentials. That support has effec-
tively delivered more than 90 per-
cent of the African American vote to
Clinton in state after state, arguably
making the difference between her
winning in losing the Democratic
nomination.
But according to Keeanga-Yamaht-
ta Taylor, there is a “growing polar-
ization between Black officials and
ordinary Blacks living in urban
communities.” She further asserts
that African Americans in positions
of power “are just as eager as White
officials to invoke racial stereotypes
to cover their own incompetence,
from claims about cultural inferior-
ity to broken families to Black crim-
inality.”
In “From #Black Lives Matter to
Black Liberation,” Professor Taylor
See BOOK on page 11