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If you’re looking for an excuse to avoid your adult responsibilities (read: cleaning your apartment like Marie Kondo), we’ve got you covered. Put down those dirty dishes and treat yourself to a brand spankin’ new series or flick coming to Amazon Prime Canada in February 2019, like award-winning film Fences starring Viola Davis and Denzel Washington — plus, a must-watch list of TV shows and movies that honour Black change makers and their stories.
The Terror, Season 1
Pass Over Synopsis: In Spike Lee’s 2018 drama, Moses and Kitch, two young black men, chat their way through a long, aimless day on a Chicago street corner. Periodically dodging bullets and managing visits from a genial but ominous stranger and an overtly hostile police officer, Moses and Kitch rely on their banter to get them through a day that is a hopeless retread of every other day, even as they continue to dream of their deliverance.
Crown Heights Synopsis: In 1980, police in Brooklyn, New York, charge teenage immigrant Colin Warner with murder. Convicted for a crime he didn’t commit, Colin spends years in prison while his friend Carl King fights for the young man’s freedom.
Homecoming Synopsis: Good intentions. Erratic bosses. Mounting paranoia. Unforeseen consequences spiralling out of control. Heidi (Julia Roberts) works at Homecoming, a facility helping soldiers like Walter Cruz (Stephan James) transition to civilian life. Years later she has started a new life, when the Department of Defence questions why she left Homecoming. Heidi realizes there’s a whole other story behind the one she’s been telling herself.
The Pursuit of Happiness Synopsis: A 2006 American biographical drama film based on entrepreneur Chris Gardner’s nearly one-year struggle being homeless. Directed by Gabriele Muccino, the film features Will Smith as Gardner, a homeless salesman. Smith’s son Jaden Smith co-stars, making his film debut as Gardner’s son, Christopher Jr.
I Am Not Your Negro Synopsis: In 1979, James Baldwin wrote a letter to his literary agent describing his next project, Remember This House. The book was to be a revolutionary, personal account of the lives and assassinations of three of his close friends: Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. At the time of Baldwin’s death in 1987, he left behind only 30 completed pages of this manuscript. Filmmaker Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished.
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