Widows: The Genre Film That Isn’t
But Widows exhibits cosmetic similarities with the heist genre, it resolutely resists generic conventions.
But Widows exhibits cosmetic similarities with the heist genre, it resolutely resists generic conventions.
My favourite films of a rough year.
12 Years a Slave takes its name from Solomon Northup’s 1853 memoir, which recounts the true story of how Solomon, a free black man in antebellum (pre-Civil War) America, was kidnapped and sold into bondage in Louisiana. The title tells a casual moviegoer that this is a film about slavery; but it’s the first two…