In an uncanny instance of art mirroring life, two major Hollywood movies will premiere just weeks apart, both of which depict relentless campaigns by American government intelligence agencies to silence influential Black voices.
They follow closely after an impeachment trial in which the majority of GOP senators showed their complicity in violence from white supremacist groups by voting to acquit the Instigator in Chief.
That packs scalding heat into the simultaneous arrival of Judas and the Black Messiah and The United States vs. Billie Holiday, and should draw attention when the latter drops on Hulu, where it landed after the pandemic scuttled Paramount's release plans.
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