Movie night with Iris.

#MeToo meets 90s Hip-Hop. This is less about the crime, but courageous Drew Dixon's (a former A&R executive with Def Jam Records) difficult decision whether to go "on the record" about being sexually assaulted by Russell Simmons.

The intersectional issues at play were the most interesting to me. The specific challenges black women face when they come forward against a black man, the fears that their allegations will play into white America's history of viewing black men as violent.

There is a clunky section focusing on the misogyny in hip-hop, and wider rock music. It's simplistic, adds little and feels tacked on.

Russell Simmons was regarded as the king of Hip Hop and founder of Def Jam Recordings is the subject of sexual abuse allegations in this documentary. The allegations in this film were alleged to have taken place in the 1990s. The allegations are much like those directed at Harvey Weinstein who produced films at Miramax and, later, The Weinstein Company. The accounts of Simmons' acts of abuse and episodes of seduction are described in detail by several victims from the music and fashion businesses. This isn't a film one would "enjoy" because its purpose is to convey the pain and destruction experienced by the people in his destructive wake. The primary complainant is Sil Lai Abrams, an A & R person, who produced a number of major talents.

... on the quality of this film - it's unarguably important if it does nothing other than provide women the confidence to stand up and fight abuse and their abusers - if it does more all the better, if it results in prosecutions even better still.