ReelBob: ‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’ ★★★★

By Bob Bloom A shroud of melancholy hangs over the film adaptation of August Wilson’s play “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom.” But it is not the […]

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ReelBob: ‘Fences’

By Bob Bloom “Fences” is a splendid film adaptation of August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning and Tony Award-winning drama that, though “opened up” for cinematic purposes, […]

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