A powerful historical drama tops the DVD releases for the week of Jan. 17.
"Till": This movie about Emmett Till shows us the journey of his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, who showed her dead son's face to the world and changed the civil rights movement.
"Chinonye Chukwu’s 'Till' is a story of two faces: Emmett’s and that of his mother Mamie Till-Mobley, portrayed by Danielle Deadwyler in a powerfully skilled and undeniably star-making screen performance," writes Tribune News Service critic Katie Walsh in her review. "Using a variety of filmmaking techniques, Chukwu asks us to look at Deadwyler’s performance as Mamie in many different ways ... and to truly understand and feel the enormity of what she accomplished. The result is a true achievement of filmmaking to create an emotional, affecting portrait of a mother and an unlikely civil rights pioneer, and to pay loving tribute to the life and death of Emmett Till."
