Apr 5th   
Selma** (12A)                        
(Electric Palace, Harwich)

(US 2014)

In 1965 Rev. Martin Luther King uses the volatile situation in Selma, Alabama to campaign for the free right for black Americans to vote.
Slightly one dimensional and slightly conventional biopic with a largely stereotypical view of the whites (including Lyndon Johnson) and a lack of definite focus - not even on King himself, which was perhaps why it didn't get the attention as a fine uplifting civil rights drama (in the tradition of Gandhi) that it deserved.

d: Ava Du Vernay
s: David Oyelowo, Tom Wilkinson (as President Johnson), Carmen Ejogo, Tim Roth, Oprah Winfrey, Dylan Baker, Cuba Gooding Jnr, Martin Sheen (uncredited)