https://staging2.theplaylist.net/review-hbos-bessie-directed-by-dee-rees-starring-queen-latifah-monique-more-20150512/ Mon, 23 May 2016 03:28:27 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 https://staging2.theplaylist.net/review-hbos-bessie-directed-by-dee-rees-starring-queen-latifah-monique-more-20150512/#comment-131460 Mon, 23 May 2016 03:28:27 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2015/more/uncategorized/review-hbos-bessie-directed-by-dee-rees-starring-queen-latifah-monique-more-264125/#comment-131460 I agree that the scenes with Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith are the best. Monique is great. The problem with the picture though comes to the fore when we hear Bessie Smith singing "Give Me A Pigfoot and a Bottle of Beer," as the credits role. There\’s little in the movie that draws us in as that song does.

]]> https://staging2.theplaylist.net/review-hbos-bessie-directed-by-dee-rees-starring-queen-latifah-monique-more-20150512/#comment-131461 Mon, 23 May 2016 03:28:27 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2015/more/uncategorized/review-hbos-bessie-directed-by-dee-rees-starring-queen-latifah-monique-more-264125/#comment-131461 Just to be sure you did say that Langston Hughes, a famous African-American writer, was played by a very, very white Jeremy Davies? Might want to correct that as imdb states he was played by Jeremie Harris, but I haven\’t seen the movie so maybe Bessie is taking some liberties lol

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