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Television/Theater Review: “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” — Listening to the Lessons of the Blues

December 10, 2020
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Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom is a stellar artistic accomplishment, a blazingly powerful dramatic experience.

Fuse Film Review: “Get On Up” — James Brown’s Music Grooves, But the Biography Falls Flat

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From the start of Get On Up, James Brown’s life is reduced to the plastic clichés of music biography.

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