The most compelling throughline in “Both Things Can Be True” takes up the least amount of screentime. In what feels like nothing I’ve seen on network TV before, Randall attends a group therapy session for transracial adoptees in which a diverse group of people speak openly and honestly about the uncomfortable truths of their lives. The way that multiple things can be true at once. That even though many of them love their adoptive families, they also carry a resentment at having grown up othered in their own homes and communities. It’s hard to let go of their “Ghost Kingdoms” the dreams of how their lives might have been if they’d grown up with their biological parents. One woman shares that she wishes she had never been adopted at all.
Releases include The Communist s Daughter, The Slowest Show, and a new season of Broad Appeal by Staff on February 27th, 2021 at 9:00 PM 1 of 3 2 of 3
Here’s everything new coming to CBC Gem in March 2021, including these highlights by our critics.
Hale County This Morning, This Evening
RaMell Ross’s Oscar-nominated experimental documentary about a group of friends living in Alabama’s Black Belt dispenses with traditional narrative in a search for the sublime. Shot over five years, the director uses associative editing to create a story out of sensory experience while emphasizing the landscapes and sounds of Hale County. Despite falling back on a few familiar visual tricks, the movie is most viscerally compelling when Ross’s probing camera evokes time through the natural flow and movements of his characters.
Scare Me
Feel the Music, Feel the Light” Music Video
In the film, Fred, a frustrated copywriter, checks into a winter cabin to start his first novel. While jogging in the nearby woods, he meets Fanny, a successful and smug young horror author who fuels his insecurities. During a power outage, Fanny challenges Fred to tell a scary story.
As a storm sets in, they pass the time spinning spooky tales fueled by the tensions between them, and Fred is forced to confront his ultimate fear: Fanny is the better storyteller. The stakes are raised when they’re visited by a horror fan who delivers levity (and a pizza) to the proceedings.
Opinion | Amazon’s superhero satire ‘The Boys’ gets even wilder
Superheroes find their reputations undone in a matter of retweets in ‘The Boys’.Premium
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Homelander is a superhero. He takes down terrorists, poses for movie posters and smiles from hoardings, with a stars-and-stripes cape and a distinctively Superman pose. Played by Antony Starr, he looks like Greg Kinnear if he’d been bred onsteroids, and in the second season of
The Boys a resoundingly entertaining series on Amazon Prime Video America’s most popular hero longs for a woman he had killed in season 1.
Elisabeth Shue plays Madeleine Starr, the aforementioned woman, and she duly shows up to comfort Homelander, to cradle his super head in her lap and let him lick milk off her fingers. This appearance feels oddly indulgent, neither a flashback nor a prolonged fantasy sequence in keeping with the show’s cruelly self-aware tone. Then, without warning, Shue grows a belly and turns
While the spotlight is on Daniel Kaluuya’s performance as Chairman Fred Hampton in
Judas and the Black Messiah (which hits theaters and HBO Max on Feb. 12 and earned the actor a Golden Globe nomination), it’s awesome to see Young Black Hollywood all over
Judas. From
Euphoria’s Algee Smith, there’s an array of Black talent that make up this cast.
One member of the squad is Darrell Britt-Gibson, who’s spent the last 15 years playing everyone from O-Dog on
The Wire and Rolla on
Power, to Shitstain on
You’re The Worst and Jermaine on
Barry. This time around, Britt-Gibson portrays a young Bobby Rush, co-founder of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panthers who ended up becoming a US congressman. “To walk in those shoes on set every day is a tall task and one that I [do] not take lightly,” Britt-Gibson admits, “I want to make him proud.”