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| Short Redhead Reel Reviews date from 1986 to present. This main page lists the five most recent film reviews. To view a complete list of all films reviewed this month, see Previous Reviews on the right. |
Sunday, June 7, 2026 |
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Love the Skin You're In |
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NR 2026 |
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[Available Feb. 3 on various TVOD platforms.] Kenn Michael's compelling, bittersweet, well-acted, down-to-earth, 108-minute film in which an award-winning, compassionate, ambitious, stressed-out, self-cutting, Black photojournalist (Sauda Johnson-McNeal), who operates an empowerment shelter for abused and homeless women started by her mother and grandmother in Los Angeles, learns to say 'no' when her estranged, diabetic, judgmental father (Obba Babatundé) suddenly reappears in her life, which forces her to finally see a therapist (Wendy Raquel Robinson) to confront and deal with her dysfunctional past and unresolved trauma.
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Grizzly Night |
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R 2026 |
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[Available Feb. 2 on DVD and various digital platforms in U.K. and Ireland.] Great photography and landscapes highlight Burke Doeren's heart-pounding, gripping, factually-based, harrowing, emotionally resonant, 87-minute wilderness thriller that captures the fate of two sets of campers (Matt Lintz, Brec Bassinger, Ali Skovbye, Sophia Gray, et al.) at Montana's Glacier National Park on August 12, 1967, when they unbelievably fall prey by two ferocious, vicious grizzly bears nine miles apart while park rangers (Lauren Call, Charles Esten, Jack Griffo, Skyler Bible, Michael Vlamis, et al.), a physician (Oded Fehr), the chalet manager (Brandon Ray Olive), and a priest (Joel Johnstone ) try to help.
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InvisibleWarriors |
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[Available Feb. 3 on various VOD platforms.] Regina Robinson narrates Gregory S. Cooke's informative, eye-opening, inspiring, heartfelt, candid, touching, thought-provoking, 64-minute documentary that explores the often overlooked contributions of more than 600,000 unsung, courageous Black female heroes of WWII who supported the war effort by working in factories and offices on the homefront and making progress toward the civil rights movement and consists of archival photographs and film clips and moving commentary by munitions assembler Alice Beatrice Clark-Amaro, sheet metal specialist Ruth Naomi Showell-Wilson, sharecropper Marian Elean Todd-Reid, RCA electronics assembler Gwendolyn A. Faison, riveter Susan Emmaline Taylor-King, National Council of Negro Women Dr. Dorothy I. Height, librarian and oral historian Dr. Janet Sims-Wood, Northwestern University African American Studies Dr. Darlene Clark Hine, War Department Allowances & Allotments clerk Birda Whitfield Bush, General Accounting Office clerk typist Bernice Arlene Paige-Bowman, Ohio crankshaft Idilia Johnson, E.I. DuPont gunpowder processor Willie Mae Steagall-Govan, and University of Nebraska-Lincoln English/Women's and Gender Studies Dr. Maureen Honey.
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Love the Skin You're In |
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[Available Feb. 3 on various TVOD platforms.] Kenn Michael's compelling, bittersweet, well-acted, down-to-earth, 108-minute film in which an award-winning, compassionate, ambitious, stressed-out, self-cutting, Black photojournalist (Sauda Johnson-McNeal), who operates an empowerment shelter for abused and homeless women started by her mother and grandmother in Los Angeles, learns to say 'no' when her estranged, diabetic, judgmental father (Obba Babatundé) suddenly reappears in her life, which forces her to finally see a therapist (Wendy Raquel Robinson) to confront and deal with her dysfunctional past and unresolved trauma.
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Cool Runnings |
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[Played Feb. 11 as part of AARP's Movies for Grownups and available on Disney+ and Fandango at Home platforms.] Jon Turteltaub's upbeat, factually inspired, sporadically funny, lighthearted, 98-minute, 1993 comedy in which a former trainer, coach, and two-medal winner (John Candy) trains a determined Jamaican bobsled team (Leon Robinson, Doug E. Doug, Rawle D. Lewis, and Malik Yoba), who were formerly sprinters, that has never experienced cold temperatures decide to train as bobsledders to compete in the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Canada.
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