In 1987, J. Michael Muro released his first and only feature, Street Trash, expanded from his 1984 short film of the same name. Street Trash followed an ensemble of homeless people – and a busboy for the mafia – struggling to get by in New York City while enduring post-Vietnam combat shock, Reagan-era social and…
Good Madam (Mlungu Wam) had its UK première at Glasgow Film Festival 2022 “So we should just pretend not to be here even though we are?”, says young Winnie (Kamvalethu Jonas Reziya) to her mother Tsidi (Chumisa Cosa) in Jenna Cato Bass’s Good Madam (Mlungu Wam), summarising the rules of their new home. After the…
Review first published by Film4 Synopsis: Justin Chadwick (The Other Boleyn Girl) directs a sprawling biopic of individual change and national revolution, with Idris Elba assuming the role of Nelson Mandela. Review: Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom is an homage in the true sense, with the first three letters of its title setting the theme….