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BlacKkKlansman, Channel 4, 9pm Spike Lee’s 2018 film is based on a 2014 memoir by retired Colorado Springs police officer Ron Stallworth, the first African-American on the city’s force, in which he tells how he infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan in the late 1970s. Hence the spellcheck-taxing title. Unsurprisingly given the premise, Lee’s adaptation is a black comedy. Stallworth is played by future Tenet star John David Washington. We first meet him in the early 1970s as he’s reassigned from menial duties in the records department to a job keeping tabs on civil rights leader Stokely Carmichael while he’s in town. This brings him into contact with Patrice Dumas (Laura Harrier), a young black activist, and the two are soon an item though understandably Stallworth keeps the fact that he’s a policeman under wraps. ....
The farmer takes the bait in a scam that keeps moviegoers guessing We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Normal text size Advertisement A few years ago, British comedian James Veitch brought a show to the Melbourne International Comedy Festival about the year he had spent replying to online scammers, the kind who profess to be desperate to warehouse a few million dollars in your bank account or propose an unexpected marriage. Some of them entered into prolonged and erratically punctuated correspondence; clearly, they thought there was a good chance he would cough up eventually. It just shows that some people do. But who could possibly fall for the old Nigerian gold scam? And who puts that scam out there, anyway? ....
THE foundation of every narrative film is the screenplay. French director Dominik Moll co-operated with Giles Marchand in writing “Only the Animals”. Which of them devised which moment became irrelevant once the result of their collaboration reached the screen. Is what they contrived with “Only the Animals” worth watching? You bet it is. Why do I have the gall to predict your reaction? Because time, place, motive and behaviour in this economically-populated drama of adultery, murder, criminality and mystery fit together with tantalising precision that begins with a Sierra Leone farmer riding his bike to market carrying a goat on his back and ends with a high-country French farmer foiled but not the loser in an online scam explained in delicate detail. ....