Thursday, January 02, 2025

Cool under heat

Senegalese cousins Seydou and Moussa want to become African immigrants to pursue their careers as musicians in Europe. They've worked hard to pay for it. They're excited. Should be a fun trip. And once they make it big in the music industry, they become superstars and their entire family is all smiles. The journey through the dangers of the desert, the horrors of detention centers and the perils of the sea  is adventurous alright. An intense, illuminating and heartbreaking rollercoaster of a film.

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Walk through fire

Belgian Kamal,  a rapper and drug dealer, gets caught, escapes and fucks off to Syria to fight with ISIS.  Life there is hard. Brutal, hard...