Movie review for the day: FSoJ

Rico and his friend Kema (who is black) went to see Free State of Jones, starring Matthew McConaughey and Gugu Mbatha-Raw:

As the Civil War divides the nation, a poor farmer from Mississippi leads a group of rebels against the Confederate army.

Rico says yes, you read that right: an internal rebellion within the Confederacy. Matthew McConaughey was excellent as Newton Knight, and Mbatha-Raw played a surprisingly wonderful ex-slave who became his wife, Rachel (photo, below). (Bet that set teeth on edge in Mississippi...)
Turns out there was a whole hundred-years-later story, about a trial of their descendant, Davis Knight, on trial for violating the state's miscegenation laws (trying to marry a white woman was still against the law in Mississippi in 1964).

Rico says that having a grandmother who was a Jones helped his decision to see it (yes, yes, no connection, just the name), and he's glad he did. You should, too...