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Arts & Entertainment
Kam’s Kapsules: Movies Opening Friday, August 11, 2017
BIG BUDGET FILMS
Annabelle: Creation (R
for horror violence) Tale
of demonic possession
about a dollmaker (An-
thony LaPaglia) and his
wife (Miranda Otto) who
open their home to a nun
(Stephanie Sigman) and
several orphans only to
have them terrorized by
one of his creations (Sa-
mara Lee). With Talitha
Bateman, Lulu Wilson
and Kerry O’Malley.
The Glass Castle (PG-13
for profanity, smoking
and mature themes) Brie
Kam
Williams
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Harrelson). Cast includes
Sarah Snook, Josh Caras
and Max Greenfield.
The Nut Job 3: Nutty
by Nature (PG for ac-
tion and rude humor)
Animated sequel finds
Surly the squirrel (Will
Arnett) and his sidekick
‘The Nut Job 3: Nutty by Nature’
Larson stars in this adap-
tation of Jeanette Walls’
best-selling memoir of
the same name recount-
ing being raised in a
dysfunctional family by
an artist (Naomi Watts)
and an alcoholic (Woody
Buddy (Tom Kenny) join-
ing forces with other ani-
mals in order to prevent
their crooked mayor
(Bobby Moynihan) from
paving the park to put
up an amusement park.
Voice cast includes Maya
Rudolph, Jackie Chan,
Katherine Heigl and Jeff
Dunham.
INDEPENDENT &
FOREIGN FILMS
Good Time (R for vi-
olence, drug use, sex-
uality and pervasive
profanity) NYC crime
drama revolving around
a mobster’s (Robert Par-
kinson) efforts to spring
his brother (Ben Safdie)
from jail after a botched
bank robbery. With Bud-
dy Duress, Barkhad (I’m
the Captain, now!”) Abdi
and Jennifer Jason Leigh.
In This Corner of the
World (PG-13 for mature
themes and images of
war) Animated histor-
ical drama, set in Japan
during World War II,
revolving around the
survivor’s guilt of an
18 year-old girl (Non)
who married and moved
away from Hiroshima be-
fore the atom bomb was
dropped on her home-
town. Voice cast includes
Megumi Han, Natsuki In-
aba and Nanase Iwai. (In
Japanese with subtitles)
Ingrid Goes West (R
for sexuality, disturbing
behavior, drug use and
pervasive behavior) Au-
The Black Lives Matters documentary ‘Whose Streets?’ looks at Ferguson, Mo. in the wake of the police
shooting of 18 year-old Mike Brown.
brey Plaza handles the
title role in this character
study of a stalker who
relocates from Pennsyl-
vania to L.A. after be-
coming obsessed with
an Instagram celebrity
(Elizabeth Olsen). Fea-
turing O’Shea Jackson,
Jr., Wyatt Russell and Bil-
ly Magnussen.
The Only Living Boy
in New York (R for pro-
fanity and drug use) Dys-
functional family drama
about the love triangle
which develops after a
recent college grad (Cal-
lum Turner) discovers
that his father’s (Pierce
Brosnan) cheating on his
mother (Cynthia Nixon)
with a younger woman
(Kate Beckinsale). With
Jeff Bridges, Kiersey
Clemons
Shawn.
and
Wallace
Planetarium (Unrated)
Supernatural
fantasy
about a couple of psychic
sisters (Natalie Portman
and Lily-Rose Depp) who
are hired by a film studio
executive (Emmanuel Sa-
linger) to star in a movie
about spiritualism. Sup-
port cast includes Lou-
is Garrel, Amira Casar
and Pierre Salvadori. (In
English and french with
subtitles)
A Taxi Driver (Unrat-
ed) Fact-based drama, set
in South Korea in 1980,
recounting how a cabbie
(Kang-ho Song) helped a
German reporter (Thom-
as Kretschmann) cover-
ing an insurrection in
the city of Gwangju. With
Hae-jin Yoo, Jun-yeol Ryu
and Daniel Joey Albright.
(In Korean with subti-
tles)
The Trip to Spain (Un-
rated) Third installment
in the culinary series
finds comedians Steve
Coogan and Rob Brydon
cracking jokes while
traveling around Spain
and sampling the local
cuisine over the course
of five days.
Whose Streets? (R
for pervasive profani-
ty) Black Lives Matter
documentary taking an
unvarnished look at Fer-
guson, Missouri in the
wake of the police shoot-
ing of 18 year-old Mike
Brown.
Gwendolyn Brooks Won the Pulitzer
Prize while Living in a Housing Project
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wendolyn Brooks’ apartment was
dark on May 1, 1950. The bril-
liant, award-winning Black poet,
who wrote about life on Chicago’s
South Side, had not paid her electric
bill.
With no electrical power, little money
and a nine-year old son to feed Brooks
made headlines around the world
while living in a housing project.
A reporter called Brooks and told her
that she had won a Pulitzer award, one
of the most prestigious prizes in liter-
ature. At 32 years-old, Brooks crashed
the White-dominated literary world as
the first Black woman to win the award.
When Brooks won the Pulitzer Prize
with her publisher Harper Row in 1950,
she received $500, which is equivalent
to about $5,000 today, when adjusted
for inflation. Today, the Pulitzer comes
with a $15,000 cash award.
The achievement was important for
Brooks’ career, but how she lived was
not completely different than other
working-class Black women in the
1950s.
Up until the day she won the Pulit-
zer, Brooks
and
her
husband,
H e n r y
Blakely, ex-
perienced
rampant
racism in
C h i c a g o’ s
schools,
but espe-
cially
in
the city’s
housing
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet
i n d u s t r y.
Gwendolyn Brooks
B l a c k s
lived piled up in slums, because of
segregation and restrictive covenants
that kept Blacks out of White neighbor-
hoods.
As was true for many Blacks, finan-
cial woes, racism and a critical housing
shortage for people of color led one of
America’s greatest literary figures to
live in a housing project, one that was
once opposed by thousands of White
residents at the height of Jim Crow pe-
riod.
As the 100th anniversary celebra-
tions of Brooks’ birthday continue,
FILE PHOTO/CHICAGO CRUSADER
By Erick Johnson
Chicago Crusader/NNPA Member
See BROOKS on page 7