David Oyelowo Archives - From | The | Balcony https://fromthebalcony.com/tag/david-oyelowo/ Remade, rebooted, or reimagined every 5 years. Tue, 10 Feb 2015 15:22:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.9 64136672 Selma (2014) https://fromthebalcony.com/movie-reviews/selma-2014/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=selma-2014 https://fromthebalcony.com/movie-reviews/selma-2014/#respond Fri, 09 Jan 2015 13:52:19 +0000 https://fromthebalcony.com/?p=3895 Selma is one of the great emotional experiences of recent years; a fiercely powerful look at one of the Civil Rights Movement’s most triumphant victories. Perhaps even more interestingly, it peels back the layers of an icon and portrays Martin Luther King Jr. in a very human and, at times, fragile… Continue reading

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]]> https://fromthebalcony.com/movie-reviews/selma-2014/feed/ 0 3895 A Most Violent Year (2014) https://fromthebalcony.com/movie-reviews/a-most-violent-year-2014/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-most-violent-year-2014 https://fromthebalcony.com/movie-reviews/a-most-violent-year-2014/#respond Mon, 29 Dec 2014 14:24:48 +0000 https://fromthebalcony.com/?p=3870 You have to hand it to writer/director J.C. Chandor. He is immensely skilled at taking otherwise mundane topics (the stock market in Margin Call, a disastrous solo sailing adventure in All Is Lost, and the oh-so-glamorous heating oil industry here) and making tense dramas surrounding them. His films are all character-driven,… Continue reading

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