January 2023 - Film

Welcome All!

In terms of new films this month, here are two recommendations that you may find entertaining

From Damien Chazelle, Babylon is an original epic set in 1920s Los Angeles led by Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie and Diego Calva, with an ensemble cast including Jovan Adepo, Li Jun Li and Jean Smart. A tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, it traces the rise and fall of multiple characters during an era of unbridled decadence and depravity in early Hollywood.

Till is a 2022 biographical film about Mamie Till Mobley, a mother turned activist who fought for justice after the lynching of her 14-year-old son Emmett Till in 1955. The young Till was visiting family in Mississippi in the summer of 1955 and was accused of allegedly flirting with store cashier Carolyn Bryant during a public outing. Bryant later stated that Till had attempted to touch her and made lude comments towards her. When Bryant’s husband Roy returned from hauling shrimp, he and his brother abducted, tortured, and murdered Till in cold blood. The murderers were eventually acquitted of the crime by an all-white jury, shedding light on systemic racism in the Jim Crow-era South. Emmett Till's ghastly murder was effectively the impetus for the civil rights movement.