In Amazon's 'Mary J. Blige's My Life,' she shows how much power came from her vulnerability

For the past 30 years, Mary J. Blige, aptly crowned the Queen of Hip-Hop and R&B, has spilled her guts in her music, flooring audiences with her haunting tracks like "Not Gon' Cry" and "No More Drama."

The multi-platinum Grammy winner has lived out many triumphs in the spotlight throughout her career beyond her music, including two Oscar nominations, for her supporting role and song in Netflix's "Mudbound," and her work in the fan-favorite drama series "Power Book II: Ghost." However, as much as her fans have celebrated Blige's successes, she's also been open about her hard times, which have included addiction, abuse and her tumultuous divorce following a 15-year marriage.

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In Amazon's 'The Underground Railroad,' Barry Jenkins gives us a stunning, heart-wrenching gift

Barry Jenkins' limited series adaptation of Colson Whitehead's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, "The Underground Railroad," is not an easy watch; stories about the enslaved never are. Yet, this glorious television event — stunningly shot, dense and heartbreaking, grounded in both the horrors of the age and the rich, mesmerizing performances of stars Thuso Mbedu and Aaron Pierre — is as important as it is impactful. If we refuse to tell the true history of this country's deeply embedded racism and the journey of Black Americans across all mediums, we are doomed to remain in an endless time loop, continually repeating our past.

In recent years, after mainstream — usually white — praise of films such as "12 Years A Slave," "Django" and the television thriller "Underground," there has been a lot of pushback from Black critics about the plethora of stories centering slavery, Black pain and the antebellum South.

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Amazon's 'Without Remorse' makes Michael B. Jordan a new antihero in Tom Clancy's America

At first, Amazon's "Without Remorse" seems to have the exact blueprint as a slew of other revenge action films, like "Jason Bourne" and "John Wick." Michael B. Jordan's John Kelly finds himself on the fringes of society when, following an ill-fated mission during his final tour as an elite Navy SEAL, a violent attack at his Washington, D.C., home leaves his heavily pregnant wife Pam (Lauren London) and their unborn daughter shot to death. He, of course, becomes determined to avenge their deaths.

John, however, soon realizes the deaths of his wife and daughter were just the tip of the iceberg in a sinister plot involving both the Russian and the United States governments.

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