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Cinephile with Adnan Virk

One Night In Miami, Small Axe: Mangrove & Lovers Rock, Best Movies Based on Plays

Cinephile with Adnan Virk

Adnan Virk, Le Batard & Friends

Film Reviews, Film Interviews, Tv & Film

4.92K Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

"One Night In Miami" marks Regina King's directorial debut and the film tells the story of a fictional meeting between Cassius Clay, Jim Brown, Sam Cooke and Malcom X as they discuss the responsibility of being successful black men during the civil rights movement. The film is already garnering high praise among critics and is sure to be a contender at this year's Academy Awards. Adnan also reviews Steve McQueen's "Mangrove" and "Lovers Rock," which is a part of the director's "Small Axe Anthology" on Amazon Prime. In honor of Regina King the guys give their picks for the 'Mt. Rushmore of Movies Based on Plays." All that and more on this episode of Cinephile! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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The

0:22.8

Furvin performances which King passionately and probingly spotlights match the momentousness

0:28.0

of the high stakes dialectical wrangling. Richard Brody of the New Yorker talking about

0:33.9

our featured review one night in Miami. It is a real Oscar contender and that's right

0:39.5

the Oscars are coming up. They're still going to happen this year folks. You're wondering

0:42.0

what is exactly happening April 24th. The nominations are March 15th. It's so weird

0:47.7

now we'd be talking the Golden Globes. The Golden Globes nominations are coming out

0:51.5

of about a month. I believe it's I know it's early February. I think it's February 3rd

0:55.0

for something like that and the Globes to fall up to that. But it's an odd award season

0:58.8

to be sure but one night Miami I promise you even though it's a little later than normal

1:03.0

is going to be an awards contender. Also reviewing this week here on Centafile Small

1:07.0

Acts Anthology. So it's five movies from Steve McQueen, the great director of shame

1:14.0

and this time it's a series of films with anthology. I know what you're thinking you're

1:18.1

going to all right so those are generally summer good summer not great et cetera. Well

1:21.3

the LA Film Critics gave the Small Acts anthology the best picture of the year. Now I don't

1:26.6

believe it's Elzor for the Oscars. I'm looking at Gold Derby.com. I do not see Small Acts

1:30.3

mentioned anywhere. I think because it was on Amazon Prime it's an anthology. It's going

1:34.4

to be up for the Emmys for limited series. So depending on how the categorization goes

1:38.7

who cares. Bottom line is this. I watched the first two episodes of the anthology which

1:42.6

were highly reviewed. Mangrove and lovers rock. And McQueen for his part said listen is

1:48.7

five different movies. Yes. But they're each individual movies. Like I want you to think

1:52.6

oh it's one big thing. It's individual movies. So we're going to review as two individual

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