{"id":29259,"date":"2024-05-08T22:33:32","date_gmt":"2024-05-09T02:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hunterword.com\/?p=29259"},"modified":"2024-05-08T22:33:32","modified_gmt":"2024-05-09T02:33:32","slug":"black-ice-film-review-2024-by-shannon-mcghee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hunterword.com\/index.php\/black-ice-film-review-2024-by-shannon-mcghee\/","title":{"rendered":"BLACK ICE Film Review 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Black Ice | Official Trailer | Exclusively In AMC Theaters on July 14\" width=\"860\" height=\"484\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yitZRRgo1Pw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Directed by Hubert Davis<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Written by Darril Fosty<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Stars P.K. Subban, Marcel Albers<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>R Rating<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>1 hour, 37 Minutes Running Time<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr align=\"center\" noshade=\"noshade\" size=\"2\" width=\"50%\" \/>\n<p>Hockey is a predominantly white sport and most fans are white. In this day and age, diversity is something that the National Hockey League is trying to promote as a sport &#8220;for everyone\u201d no matter one&#8217;s age, race, gender or sexual orientation \u2013 which is one of the reasons I hope more viewers see the documentary, BLACK ICE, directed by Hubert Davis.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-29274\" src=\"https:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/blackice4-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/blackice4-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/blackice4-1024x613.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/blackice4-768x460.jpg 768w, https:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/blackice4-560x335.jpg 560w, https:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/blackice4-260x156.jpg 260w, https:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/blackice4-160x96.jpg 160w, https:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/blackice4.jpg 1134w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As a true hockey fan and growing up in a newer generation, I recognize the flaws of the game: Not enough diversity. BLACK ICE \u2013 streaming on Disney+, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV, Hulu and others \u2013 can open viewers eyes to the racism that unfortunately still exists to this day as well as introducing them to black hockey history.<\/p>\n<p>Players like Anthony Duclair, Sarah Nurse, P.K. Subban and Willie O\u2019Ree and many more are featured talking about their love of the game and experiences that they have gone through. \u201cI played because I loved the sport, and, still do,\u201d said Willie O\u2019Ree, who was the first black player in the National Hockey League in 1958. <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Willie_O%27Ree\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">{Click here for more insight and info.}<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Akim Aliu, a former NHL player documents his experiences when he was a young kid growing up in Toronto, Canada. Aliu, who was born to a Nigerian father and Ukrainian mother, moved with them to Canada as a young child. Financially playing hockey was very hard (hockey is the most expensive sports to play). <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/akim-aliu-hockey-hazing-big-read\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">{Click here for more background information.}<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-29275\" src=\"https:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/blackice2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Aliu said he was young and getting started on his hockey career that he was always running into obstacles and challenges, such as, especially, because he was looking different than everyone else as well as speaking differently.<\/p>\n<p>He always felt different and was regarded as an outsider. In November 2019, Aliu came forward public with allegation that his former coach, Bill Peters of the Rockford Ice Hogs (who are a part of the American Hockey League) used racist names against him. Aliu was one of the first to come forward publicly exposing the toxic side of hockey.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_29279\" style=\"width: 220px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29279\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-29279\" src=\"https:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/blackice-extra-210x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/blackice-extra-210x300.jpg 210w, https:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/blackice-extra-260x372.jpg 260w, https:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/blackice-extra-160x229.jpg 160w, https:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/blackice-extra.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-29279\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Canadian former professional ice hockey player from Fredericton, New Brunswick. He is widely recognized for being the first Black player in the National Hockey League, playing as a winger for the Boston Bruins.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This behavior should not ever be tolerated, and because of Akim Aliu, more have felt comfortable coming forward about their experiences.\u00a0 With more people coming forward, more accountability and positive measures can happen. Racist behavior doesn\u2019t just happen in professional sports, it happens in all sports from top to bottom.<\/p>\n<p>In BLACK ICE, Mark Connors, a junior hockey player, talks about an incident in a PeeWee hockey game \u2013 PeeWee-ers are ages 11 to12 \u2013 when a player from the opposing team called him a racial slur. Connors recalls the incident shaking him up and most of all making him feel like he didn\u2019t belong.<\/p>\n<p>After the game, his coach spoke to the opposing team&#8217;s coach about the racist insult. The head coach was the dad of the opposing player who had insulted Connors; the coach was penalized with a 45-day suspension and an apology was ordered to be written. Yet, the opposing coach refused to write the apology.<\/p>\n<p>Mark and his team went on to play that team six times, and every time that player refused to shake Mark\u2019s hand or acknowledge him. But Mark, nevertheless, prevailed. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/kidsnews\/post\/first-person-i-was-a-victim-of-racial-slurs-in-hockey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">{Check the following out the following.}<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This documentary is very informative, eye opening and yet saddening. It is sad that racism persists and kids just trying to live out their dreams of playing hockey professional or not must be ready to face. I urge \u2013 and not just hockey fans\u2013 to watch BLACK ICE and learn about the importance of being a good person, treating everyone equally and supporting one another.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_27340\" style=\"width: 275px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27340\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-27340\" src=\"https:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/shannon-coco-265x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"265\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/shannon-coco-265x300.jpg 265w, https:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/shannon-coco-260x295.jpg 260w, https:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/shannon-coco-160x181.jpg 160w, https:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/shannon-coco.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 265px) 100vw, 265px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-27340\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shannon McGee, Film Reviewer &amp; WORD Sports Editor. Picture by Coco Lin<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Black Ice, the award-winning UNINTERRUPTED documentary that exposes a history of racism in hockey through the untold stories of Black hockey players, both past and present, in a predominantly white sport. The film explores the deep BIPOC roots of the game, dating back to 1865 and the Colored Hockey League of the Maritimes (CHL), the first all-pro league, which not only introduced the slapshot but shaped the game of hockey we know today. \u2013 Review by Shannon McGhee<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/hunterword.com\/index.php\/black-ice-film-review-2024-by-shannon-mcghee\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":103,"featured_media":29276,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2174,31,637],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2174","category-film-tv-reviews","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hunterword.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hunterword.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hunterword.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hunterword.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/103"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hunterword.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29259"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/hunterword.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29297,"href":"https:\/\/hunterword.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29259\/revisions\/29297"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hunterword.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hunterword.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hunterword.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hunterword.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}