immigrantscanada.com

Independent topical source of current affairs, opinion and issues, featuring stories making news in Canada from immigrants, newcomers, minorities & ethnic communities' point of view and interests.

Krysten Ritter: Roxanne Shant and Michael Larnell

krysten ritter: Mahershala Ali, Nia Long and Beastie Boy Adam Horovitz co-star, according to NOW Magazine. March 23Jessica Jones season 2 Of the half-dozen Marvel TV shows bouncing around the ether, Jessica Jones is the only one that feels like appointment viewing, driven by Krysten Ritter's terrific performance as the eponymous self-hating, super-powered private investigator. In addition to Rapture, a docuseries profiling eight rappers, and the RZA-directed Azealia Banks vehicle Love Beats Rhymes, we're getting a biopic about one of the genre's seminal figures, Roxanne Shant . Michael Larnell's film, which premiered at Sundance in 2017, stars Chant Adams as the Queensbridge MC whose epic clap back to U.T.F.O., Roxanne's Revenge, became an underground hit and sparked the Roxanne Wars of the 1980s. She can jump really high and punch people through walls, but she'd really rather just sit by herself and brood, ideally with a bottle at hand. March 8Collateral There's the whodunit and then there's the systemic whodunit. The second season promises to delve into Jessica's past, but the biggest question is whether showrunner Melissa Rosenberg can come up with a big bad as threatening and as interesting as David Tennant's mind-controlling Kilgrave was in season one. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.