Film Shorts // May 12-18, 2021
OPENING
Army of the Dead (R) The latest film by Zack Snyder is about a group of mercenaries who decide to rob a Las Vegas casino after the city is overrun by zombies. Starring Dave Bautista, Ella Purnell, Garret Dillahunt, Nora Arnezeder, Ana de la Reguera, Hiroyuki Sanada, Omari Hardwick, Raúl Castillo, and Tig Notaro. (Opens Friday)
The Djinn (R) This horror film stars Ezra Dewey as a mute boy trapped in an apartment with a sinister spirit after he makes a wish. Also with Rob Brownstein, Tevy Poe, John Erickson, and Donald Pitts. (Opens Friday in Dallas)
Love In Color
by Bolu Babalola (Photo credit: William Morrow)
Love, in all its examples and definitions, is one of life’s most malleable things. It’s disparate that way. Historically, romantic love has been full of men lusting after and entrapping women who want nothing to do with them. In some of the most common myths and lores, love can be misogynistic, heteronormative, and used as a tool to subjugate people, particularly women. British Nigerian writer Bolu Babalola’s debut book,
Love in Color: Mythical Tales from Around the World, Retold, released on April 13, rewrites “love” for the modern era. Babalola focuses primarily on classical myths from Nigeria, China, Ghana, and other countries filled with people who’ve historically been marginalized, imbuing those tales with a new appreciation for the formerly forsaken female protagonists. She also sheds misogyny, graphic violence, sexual misconduct, and other old vehicles used in traditional storytelling, instead choos
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