Netflix recently announced they’ve amassed thousands of hidden categories, through which they siphon your media proclivities into increasingly obscure groups. Exclusively Satanic stories? Check. Action movies starring Stephen Baldwin? Oh boy, check.
Films showing grizzled Southerner Matthew McConaughey going against society to do what’s right? Well, no, not yet. That doesn’t mean there shouldn’t be, though, ’cause Free State Of Jones only seems to add to the growing niche that Dallas Buyers’ Club, True Detective, and Mud have already carved out.
The newie shows McConaughey portraying a real-life U.S Civil War deserter in the Deep South, as he hitches up with resistance forces, attempts to secede from the Confederacy and instate the eponymous Free State Of Jones, all while aiding former slaves who’d escaped from surrounding plantations.
Spoiler alert: unless they’ve been keeping it very secret for the better part of 300 years, Jones ain’t one of the Lower 48. Still, this impending addition to the McConnaissance has already earned its keep with a fair whack of barn-burning, Confederate-shootin’, drawl-slinging action. It’s set for release in the states on May 13.
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