sgt1372Jan 30, 2025

I just watched the #NickelBoys (2024), a #GoldenGlobe & #Oscar Nominee for #BestPicture this year, at my local #AMC today.

The movie is about 2 #BlackKids who were incarcerated in an abusive to #ReformSchool in the south where later many unmarked graves of children who were held & killed there were later found.

The Nickel Boys is shown in a narrow TV like screen (not in widescreen) & is shot from a close-up perspective of each of the boys (and later one of them as an adult) mixed in with a montage of scenes relating to #JimCrow & the #CivilRights movement which helped to advance the arc of story.

While I found the cinematic approach lacked continuity, it was an interesting & enjoyed the movie overall. I'd give it a 6 for entertainment value & a 7 for it's unique artistic approach.

It didn't win the Golden Globe for Best Picture & I don't think it'll win the Oscar either but I think that it deserved the nomination.

If you haven't seen it yet, watch it where/whenever you can.

NABJ Black News & ViewsJan 3, 2025
​The story of America's notorious "reform schools" — de facto prisons for Black boys rife with abuse — is told in the acclaimed film "Nickel Boys." BNV contributor Carla Hay talked with Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Daveed Diggs and others who've brought Colson Whitehead's book to the screen. https://bit.ly/3DaV8V2 #nickelboys #reformschool
Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Daveed Diggs chat about “Nickel Boys,” reform school exposé drawing early acclaim NABJ Black News & Views

The dramatic film "Nickel Boys," directed by RaMell Ross, takes Colson Whitehead's Pulitzer Prize-winning 2019 novel "The Nickel Boys" and has made the book into uniquely visual cinematic art, resulting in one of the most acclaimed movies of 2024. Orion Pictures, a subsidiary of Amazon MGM Studios, is releasing “Nickel Boys" in theaters on Friday.

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NABJ Black News & ViewsJan 2, 2025
​Hundreds of victims of physical or sexual abuse at two of Florida's notorious reform schools — depicted in the acclaimed film "Nickel Boys" — are stepping forward to apply for restitution. https://bit.ly/40fuALw #ReformSchool
Hundreds apply for restitution for abuse suffered at Florida reform schools NABJ Black News & Views

Hundreds of people who say they suffered physical or sexual abuse at two state-run reform schools in Florida are in line to receive tens of thousands of dollars in restitution from the state, after Florida lawmakers formally apologized for the horrors they endured as children more than 50 years ago. At its peak in the Jim Crow 1960s, 500

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Michael Knox-SmithAug 20, 2024
Some Kind of Hate (2015): Unjustly Panned (Review) https://mikesfilmtalk.com/2016/09/11/kind-hate-2015-unjustly-panned-review/ #Bullying, #GracePhipps, #Horror, #IndieFilm, #NoahSegan, #ReformSchool, #Review, #RonenRubinstein
Some Kind of Hate (2015): Unjustly Panned (Review)

The 2015 horror film Some Kind of Hate has been unjustly panned by almost every critic who sat down and watched the film.  Charges that the movie is overly gory and not scary have been levied against the feature as well as the film not being overly original in its theme. Certainly “bullying” films are … Continue reading "Some Kind of Hate (2015): Unjustly Panned (Review)"

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KinoGhoulDec 7, 2022

We keep running into cases of private schools, reform schools, christian schools committing horrendous cases of abuse. Every time it feels like a herculean task to not only get laws enforced against them but even getting proper coverage of the problem.

https://youtu.be/s7OLvJR-U4w

https://www.npr.org/2012/10/15/162941770/floridas-dozier-school-for-boys-a-true-horror-story

#poltics #uspolitics #law #reformschool #Theringoffire #abuse #humanrights

Decades Of Death & Abuse Exposed At Florida Dozier School For Boys

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