Meanwhile, coming to Netflix is Academy Award winner Viola Davis in a starry turn as Ma Rainey, the woman née Gertrude Pridgett in Georgia in 1886 o.k.a. the Mother of the Blues, in George C. Wolfe’s Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, an adaptation of the eponymous 1982 August Wilson play. Set in Chicago during a steamy […]
Coming this month to Amazon Prime Video is Troop Zero, a 2019 Sundance Film Festival title inspired by Beasts of the Southern Wild screenwriter Lucy Alibar’s 2010 play, Christmas and Jubilee Behold the Meteor Shower. Picture it: Rural, trailer-park-y Georgia, 1977. Christmas Flint, a young girl (Gifted’s Mckenna Grace), wants to enter a national competition […]
King of Cups 