Andra Day brings Billie Holiday’s genius breathtakingly to life in a film that exposes the war on drugs as a “war on Black excellence.” The United States vs. Billie Holiday, streaming on Hulu, is the latest truth-baring movie produced and directed by Lee Daniels. Speaking to the Guardian, Daniels acknowledged that the movie is “a call to arms, because we’re in dangerous times.” Times that echo the U.S. government’s harassment of Holiday from about 1939 until her death in 1959. This
In Clanlands: Whisky, Warfare, and a Scottish Adventure Like No Other, the actors, Sam Heughan and Graham McTavish, perform their traveloir as the Odd Couple take a history tour, with hilarious banter jerking the wheel to the present. It might inspire your own adventure of self-discovery. Read more…