Even without the musical component, BBQ works perfectly as the smoothest possible blend between the teenage social drama and the dystopian science fiction, as the writer-director Jeanne Mayer hits the right note about the hopelessness that marks the lives of the contemporary youth.
Over the seventy-six-minute runtime, a collection of famous Nigerian faces are shown, gorgeously lit, bare faced and shouldered and recounting experiences of how colorism affected their lives for the good or worse, mostly for the worse
Imagine a vintage John Hughes teen movie, but with backstage orgies and three-day heroin binges.
For Evans Chan, the filmmaker based in Hong Kong and New York, his native city serves as the bottomless well of inspiration for his fiction and documentary work. Throughout his career, from To Liv(e) (1991) on, there is a line of chronicling the changes in the Hong Kong society, stuck between two imperial forces, the British and the Chinese.
There are accusations of proxy wars with countries in the Global West and Middle East fueling armed bandits, but the closest the story gets to armed bandits are the Amazigh people preparing to shit down a refiners that will cost the country billions
