African-American Tony-winning director George C. Wolfe’s $20m adaptation of black playwright August Wilson’s Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom won Chadwick Boseman a posthumous Golden Globe, but failed to win either him nor the equally brilliant Viola Davis an Oscar at last month’s awards in Tinseltown.

In the age of Covid this movie was released on Netflix in December 2020, and has garnered rave reviews...

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