Sunday, October 4, 2020
I Called Him Morgan (2016)
An exploration of the relationship between jazz trumpeter Lee Morgan and his common-law wife Helen, who was implicated in his murder in 1972.
Remarkable documentary reveals both the musical genius of Lee Morgan, but also the personal tragedy and its impact on his friends and the musical world of jazz.
The Book of Eli (2010)
A lone man fights his way across America in order to protect a sacred book that holds the secrets to saving humankind.
Stylish and entertaining post-apocalyptic drama plays out like a spaghetti Western with Washington as the taciturn hero and Oldman as the sophisticated villain; big let-down when it's revealed what the "sacred book" is...
Maltin**1/2: "Washington does his best Clint Eastwood in this violent but entertaining postapocalyptic tale...Taking the "end of days" genre and wrapping it in the guise of a Sergio Leone spaghetti Western, the Hughes brothers create a lurid guilty pleasure, with a "message" thrown in for good measure."
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