Welcome II: The Terrordome

66th Review for The Collab Weekly Movie Watch Look, before I start this review, I'm not going to sit here and proclaim that I'm a Black cinema scholar. Not by a longshot. That being said, this has to be one of (if not THE) most underrated black films ever made. Hands…

Rafael "Mister Movie" Jovine

I wish we could have seen the movie that Ngozi Onwurah would have made had she not been the first Black British woman to direct a feature film. The movie that she would have made with ready access to funding, and no need to moderate or edit herself as she worked on a film…

sakana1

What a pure expression of rage.

Sally Jane Black

British African diaspora revolution narrative. Completely non-veiled social dystopian science fiction. Year 500 (and counting) of a people imprisoned in the Neo-colonial Western Matrix. An extremely interesting movie. The first half is very post Public Enemy and NWA. It…

Joshua Dysart

1st Ngozi Onwurah One thing Welcome II the Terrordome can't be accused of is being short on subject matter. As the first film released in the UK by Black British female director, there's a conscious stuffing to the gills with ideas and ambition to say everything that…

𝔻𝕠𝕔 𝕃𝕪𝕠𝕟

Ngozi Onwurah is a genius

dselwyns

Never knew it existed until yesterday. It was way, way, waaaaay ahead of its time. Like its director predicted these current times. It's like Carpenter's They Live with the soul of Spielberg's The Color Purple. Its set like in Mad Max times. Black people in England live in…

Waldo

Watched with the Collab (#30) An angry punk poem to the disenfranchised. Welcome II the Terrordome opens with black men, women, and children in chains, cast into slavery, newly arrived on the shores of their new land, greeted by white settlers with their worse than…

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The past is thrown into the future to show a continuity of not only Black suffering and oppression, but of Black resistance. Director, Ngozi Onwurah, starts her distinct and righteously angry dystopian drama with a depiction of Igbo landing. The event depicted is the…

Stephen Gillespie