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‘Mufasa: The Lion King’ movie review: This lion saga mainly purrs along
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‘Mufasa: The Lion King’ movie review: This lion saga mainly purrs along

The Hindu  

Though this photo-realistically animated sequel/prequel to the 2019 remake of 1994’s beloved The Lion King is called Mufasa: The Lion King, it is also the story of Scar, the antagonist, who covets the throne. When Kiara says she is afraid of the storm, and after Pumbaa and Timon give her a version of Simba’s victory over his uncle Scar — …

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Black LGBTQ+ spacemakers on building community with intention in L.A.
5 months, 1 week ago

Black LGBTQ+ spacemakers on building community with intention in L.A.

LA Times  

Terrell Brooke, Suni Jade Reid, Alexandria Florent and Anita Obasi. “That’s what Aunties means to me.” Shout-out from Reid to these L.A. people and places: Trans Defense Fund Los Angeles is an organization that I love. Terrell Brooke, a key figure in the L.A. queer community, considers curating his vibrant and popular events as “mutually nourishing.” As the DJ and …

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How ‘outlier’ filmmaker C.J. Obasi became Nigeria’s new Oscar hopeful
1 year, 1 month ago

How ‘outlier’ filmmaker C.J. Obasi became Nigeria’s new Oscar hopeful

LA Times  

As part of our yearlong series on Sundance filmmakers, The Independents, we asked participants to keep a diary of their working life and submit an accompanying self-portrait. I managed to write a few pages of “La Pyramide” and I’m taking a break. Back to working on my other script, “Mortuary Man.” I’m on Page 54, which means I’m more than …

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Review: ‘Mami Wata’ serves up a gorgeously rendered West African fable, tinged with mysticism
1 year, 2 months ago

Review: ‘Mami Wata’ serves up a gorgeously rendered West African fable, tinged with mysticism

LA Times  

You don’t need to believe in the generosity of an ancient water deity to be transfixed by Nigerian director C.J. “Fiery” Obasi’s folklore melodrama “Mami Wata.” Respecting the conjuring power of movies is all the devotion that’s required to fall under the spell cast by Obasi’s stark, roiling tale of spirit-world mysteries and all-too-human machinations, filmed in an evocatively dense …

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C.J. ‘Fiery’ Obasi on financing: ‘Be more careful who [you] take money from’
1 year, 4 months ago

C.J. ‘Fiery’ Obasi on financing: ‘Be more careful who [you] take money from’

LA Times  

As the first Nigerian-based director to have a feature selected by the Sundance Film Festival, C.J. A mesmerizing drama set in a fictional West African village whose traditional beliefs in a water spirit called Mami Wata have come under attack, the picture drew strong reviews and earned a jury prize for Lílis Soares’ starkly beautiful black-and-white cinematography. If you had …

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