“Blood Brothers” floats on perceptive interviews, rich archival photos and pointed newsreel footage. It stings, too, with its exploration of two iconic, uncompromising figures who were friends for (the film persuasively argues) too short a spell. Director Marcus A. Clarke used Randy Roberts and Johnny Smith’s “Blood Brothers: The Fatal Friendship Between Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X” as a touchstone for this documentary — available on Netflix — but also brought his own insights as a Black man in America to the work. The result is thought-provoking, resonant, often touching.
The duo envisioned by “One Night in Miami” were nearing the end of their deep bond when they celebrated Cassius Clay’s victory over Sonny Liston in the 1964 heavyweight title bout. Although Malcolm X was 16 years older, there were similarities. Each embodied curiosity. Each met white racism with gloves off. Both were verbal stylists. Ali waxed poetic. Malcolm X lit fires...
The duo envisioned by “One Night in Miami” were nearing the end of their deep bond when they celebrated Cassius Clay’s victory over Sonny Liston in the 1964 heavyweight title bout. Although Malcolm X was 16 years older, there were similarities. Each embodied curiosity. Each met white racism with gloves off. Both were verbal stylists. Ali waxed poetic. Malcolm X lit fires...
- 9/10/2021
- by Lisa Kennedy
- Variety Film + TV
November 7, 2014
Interstellar
Director: Christopher Nolan
Starring: Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway
Running time: 166 mins
Certificate: 12A
November Man
Director: Roger Donaldson
Starring: Pierce Brosnan, Luke Bracey
Running time: 108 mins
Certificate: 15
Say When
Director: Lynn Shelton
Starring: Keira Knightley, Chloë Grace Moretz
Running time: 99 mins
Certificate: 15
Set Fire to the Stars
Director: Andy Goddard
Starring: Elijah Wood, Celyn Jones
Running time: 97 mins
Certificate: 15
The Skeleton Twins
Director: Craig Johnson
Starring: Kristen Wiig, Bill Hader
Running time: 93 mins
Certificate: 15
November 14, 2014
The Drop
Director: Michaël R. Roskam
Starring: Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace
Running time: 106 mins
Certificate: 15
The Imitation Game
Director: Morten Tyldum
Starring: Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley
Running time: 114 mins
Certificate: 12A
Life Itself
Director: Steve James
Starring: Roger Ebert, Martin Scorsese
Running time: 121 mins
Certificate: 15
Nativity 3: Dude, Where's My Donkey
Director: Debbie Issit
Starring: Adam Garcia, Catherine Tate
Running time: 105 mins
Certificate: U
Third Person
Director: Paul Haggis
Starring: Liam Neeson, Olivia Wilde...
Interstellar
Director: Christopher Nolan
Starring: Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway
Running time: 166 mins
Certificate: 12A
November Man
Director: Roger Donaldson
Starring: Pierce Brosnan, Luke Bracey
Running time: 108 mins
Certificate: 15
Say When
Director: Lynn Shelton
Starring: Keira Knightley, Chloë Grace Moretz
Running time: 99 mins
Certificate: 15
Set Fire to the Stars
Director: Andy Goddard
Starring: Elijah Wood, Celyn Jones
Running time: 97 mins
Certificate: 15
The Skeleton Twins
Director: Craig Johnson
Starring: Kristen Wiig, Bill Hader
Running time: 93 mins
Certificate: 15
November 14, 2014
The Drop
Director: Michaël R. Roskam
Starring: Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace
Running time: 106 mins
Certificate: 15
The Imitation Game
Director: Morten Tyldum
Starring: Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley
Running time: 114 mins
Certificate: 12A
Life Itself
Director: Steve James
Starring: Roger Ebert, Martin Scorsese
Running time: 121 mins
Certificate: 15
Nativity 3: Dude, Where's My Donkey
Director: Debbie Issit
Starring: Adam Garcia, Catherine Tate
Running time: 105 mins
Certificate: U
Third Person
Director: Paul Haggis
Starring: Liam Neeson, Olivia Wilde...
- 10/29/2014
- Digital Spy
Intense music drama Whiplash, already a big winner at Sundance and the Deauville American Film Festival earlier this year, should drum up plenty of audience interest in its debut this weekend, even though it faces a crowded specialty market that also features several other notable newcomers, including the Bill Murray comedy St. Vincent, Hilary Swank‘s You’re Not You and Jeremy Renner‘s Kill the Messenger. All are what I’d call “big” specialty releases, with big names attached that should attract big attention.
The weekend also includes what I’d call some “small” releases, including documentaries The Overnighters (another Sundance winner) and I Am Ali, about the former heavyweight boxing champion, alongside the Mormon Church-backed Meet the Mormons. All will be clawing for attention in a market that’s seen more than 30 films debut in the past three weeks.
That said, Whiplash should be a real career turner...
The weekend also includes what I’d call some “small” releases, including documentaries The Overnighters (another Sundance winner) and I Am Ali, about the former heavyweight boxing champion, alongside the Mormon Church-backed Meet the Mormons. All will be clawing for attention in a market that’s seen more than 30 films debut in the past three weeks.
That said, Whiplash should be a real career turner...
- 10/10/2014
- by Brian Brooks
- Deadline
Above: Bill Siegel and Khalilah Camacho-Ali
Unlike other films about the controversial boxer, the recent documentary The Trials of Muhammad Ali makes no pretense of telling Ali’s whole story. It presumes that most of us in the audience already know it and those of us who don’t can easily fill in the gaps with the wealth of other movies, books, and TV specials devoted to his legend. Produced by Chicago-based documentary company Kartemquin Films, Trials focuses on Ali’s conversion to the Nation of Islam and the controversies associated with his religious and political convictions. These subjects are addressed in Michael Mann’s Ali (2001) and referenced in other documentaries about him, but Trials examines them in greater depth, generally neglecting his athletic achievements to better focus on his radicalism.
We took some time to speak with the film’s director, Bill Siegel, whose first film was Kartemquin-produced The Weather Underground...
Unlike other films about the controversial boxer, the recent documentary The Trials of Muhammad Ali makes no pretense of telling Ali’s whole story. It presumes that most of us in the audience already know it and those of us who don’t can easily fill in the gaps with the wealth of other movies, books, and TV specials devoted to his legend. Produced by Chicago-based documentary company Kartemquin Films, Trials focuses on Ali’s conversion to the Nation of Islam and the controversies associated with his religious and political convictions. These subjects are addressed in Michael Mann’s Ali (2001) and referenced in other documentaries about him, but Trials examines them in greater depth, generally neglecting his athletic achievements to better focus on his radicalism.
We took some time to speak with the film’s director, Bill Siegel, whose first film was Kartemquin-produced The Weather Underground...
- 12/17/2013
- by Ben and Kathleen Sachs
- MUBI
Laila Ali and her husband, former Nfl star Curtis Conway, are expecting their first child together, she confirms exclusively to Essence magazine. "I don't know yet if we are having a boy or a girl, but I'm excited that I have a life inside me that my husband and I created," Ali says in the May issue, which hits newsstands April 11. The boxing champ, who co-hosts American Gladiators, and Conway married last July in the rose garden of the Ritz-Carlton in Marina del Rey, Calif. Among the 200 guests were Laila's parents, Muhammad Ali and Veronica Porsche Anderson, along with her sister Hana Ali,...
- 3/26/2008
- PEOPLE.com
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