Oscars and Racism in the U.S.
Ladies and Gentlemen, We have a winner! In 2015, Selma is the only film that approaches the majesty and gravitas of what an Oscar for Best Picture should be. It is a superb story but, ironically, not a well-produced film. Selma is actually a ten-part HBO television series squashed into a two-hour movie. The writer and director try to tell the complicated story of a flawed hero - Martin Luther King - in the weeks before the civil rights march from...