Tron Legacy (2010)
Movie Watch
Sam learns of a cryptic signal originating from the arcade of legendary game creator Kevin Flynn,...
The United States vs. Billie Holiday (2021)
Movie
Follows Holiday during her career as she is targeted by the Federal Department of Narcotics with an...
Burden (2018)
Movie
Based on the inspiring true story of the bridging of one of the biggest racial divides imaginable....
drama
Matthew Krueger (10051 KP) rated Four Brothers (2005) in Movies
Jan 13, 2021
The plot: When an inner-city Detroit foster mother (Fionnula Flanagan) is murdered in a botched holdup, four of her now-grown adopted children suspect it was no random killing. Rising musician Jack (Garrett Hedlund), former-Marine Angel (Tyrese Gibson), hotheaded hockey player Bobby (Mark Wahlberg) and settled-down husband and father Jeremiah (André Benjamin) go on the hunt for neighborhood criminal kingpin Victor Sweet (Chiwetel Ejiofor) while being trailed themselves by the local beat cops.
The cast is good, the action is good, the suspense is good and its a good thriller.
Mudbound (2017)
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Laura McAllan is trying to raise her children on her husband's Mississippi Delta farm, a place she...
drama
Unbroken (2014)
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Academy Award® winner Angelina Jolie directs and produces this epic drama that follows the...
Death Sentence (2007)
Movie Watch
Thriller starring Kevin Bacon. Nick Hume (Bacon) is a mild-mannered executive with a perfect life...
On the Road
Book
Five decades after it was first published, Jack Kerouac's seminal Beat novel On the Road finally...
Bostonian916 (449 KP) rated Burden (2018) in Movies
Aug 4, 2020
Anyway, Burden is a true story about Mike Burden, an active KKK member in the deep south. Having lived a life of hate and anger, he falls in love with a woman who shows him that there are other ways. He denounces his position in the Klan and removes himself from it entirely with the help of a local reverend who happens to be black.
The film makers did a wonderful job of showing the mental and emotional anguish that Burden went through by walking away from the only "family" he ever knew, even though they were heinous, it was still not an easy task.
Garrett Hedlund and Forest Whitaker are both absolutely phenomenal in their respective roles. From what I understand, the film stays pretty true to the actual story that played out in real life.
Though the film is based on events that took place in the 90's from what I can tell, the story told is a relevant today (perhaps moreso) than ever.