Today's episode is all about Ma Raineys Black Bottom Review Starring Chadwick Boseman and Viola Davis. Also, stick around for some opinions and updates!!

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Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (2020) is a History, Music, Drama based on the play of the same name created by August Wilson. The film was directed by George C. Wolfe and stars Viola Davis, Chadwick Boseman, Glynn Turman, Coleman Domingo, and Micheal Potts. Tensions and temperatures rise over the course of an afternoon recording session in 1920s Chicago as a band of musicians awaits trailblazing performer, the legendary “Mother of the Blues,” Ma Rainey (Academy Award® winner Viola Davis). Late to the session, the fearless, fiery Ma engages in a battle of wills with her white manager and producer over control of her music. As the band waits in the studio’s claustrophobic rehearsal room, ambitious cornet player Levee (Chadwick Boseman) — who has an eye for Ma’s girlfriend and is determined to stake his own claim on the music industry — spurs his fellow musicians into an eruption of stories revealing truths that will forever their Lives