Film & Television
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The Business Post reviews this week’s screen entertainment
They Cloned Tyrone, directed by Juel Taylor; Netflix, 15; rating: ****
Just because you’re paranoid, it doesn’t mean they’re not out to get you. That’s the message in They Cloned Tyrone, Juel Taylor’s genre-bending Netflix sci-fi mystery adventure that takes the forms and language of 1970s Blaxploitation cinema and adapts them to contemporary concerns.
Those concerns – racism, inequality, poverty, drug and alcohol dependence – aren’t all that different to those expressed in the films ...