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You know that kind of movie you hear crazy buzz about featuring a great cast and good writing, but you still go into this cinematic experience low key skeptical? Then you get proven wrong AF. That’s what watching Hidden Figures was for me. That’s why I feel supremely moronic. That’s why you should go see this insanely good movie. It was everything it had to be. Historic. Literary fire. Stimulating. Visually stunning. Tense. Racially charged. Triumphant. A glorious work of storytelling and adventure. Acting Hidden Figures features 3 of the most influential women in aeronautical history. I didn’t say Black or African American women, intentionally. Why? Because they were simply That. Fucking. Amazing. Women who blew me away over and over, with each and every passing scene. Janelle Monae, where you come from wit all these dope ass acting skills? First her beautiful performance in Best Picture Oscar winner, Moonlight, and now this? That’s gotta be some sort of record for an actress in her first two movies. Octavia Spencer, you have crushed every single one of your movies since day 1, more Oscars soon come. Taraji P. Henson? Wow. This woman has officially earned my utmost respect and dignity with this performance. What we talkin bout, range? Taraji got the whole spectrum covered and smothered like grandma’s Thanksgiving Day gravy. For a woman who plays the flashy Cookie Lyon so damn ratchetly perfect, to transform into this astonishingly smart, yet timid individual is absolutely a…
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Ja-Quan Greene
Ja-Quan is a NYC teacher and artist holding a B.A. in Sociology and History from SUNY New Paltz. On his journey to become Hokage, the Lord of The Speed Force and Protector of the Recaps…
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