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Black Panther made history Sunday night, becoming the first Marvel Studios film to ever win an Oscar. The Ryan Coogler-directed superhero flick headed into the ceremony with a total of seven nominations, and has already taken home two awards: Best Costume Design (Ruth E. Carter) and Best Production Design (Hannah Beachler, Jay Hart). “Marvel may have […]
Boots Riley isn’t a fan BlacKkKlansman. The director/musician took to Twitter back in August to share his three-page critique of the Spike Lee-directed film. Though Riley referred to Lee as one of his biggest influences, he blasted BlacKkKlansman for its “fabricated story notes” and how it essentially served as pro-police propaganda. “It’s a made-up story in which the false parts of […]
One of the more surprising announcements to come from this year’s Sundance Film Festival was that HBO purchased A24’s Native Son, a reimagining of Richard Wright’s 1940 book. Visual artist Rashid Johnson was at the helm for his first film, and it stars Ashton Sanders (of Moonlight fame), as well as Margaret Qualley (The Leftovers), KiKi Layne (If Beale Street Could Talk), […]
February has been hell month: with the Super Bowl, the Grammys, and All-Star Weekend touching down on subsequent Sunday evenings, it’s been a miracle that we’ve been able to keep up with this season of True Detective. As February comes to a close, we have one more night of appointment television to consume: the 91st Academy […]
Every good movie has a villain, some antagonist trying to keep our heroes from achieving greatness (or just, you know, surviving). Some movie villains are tame, less “pure vessel of evil” and more “annoying nuisance or obstacle.” But plenty of movie villains are straight out of a nightmare, the serial killers and monsters who only appear […]
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse writers Rodney Rothman and Phil Lord knew exactly how they wanted the opening scene with the film’s young hero Miles Morales to unfold. “We had this idea that if he sang a song that was out of his register, it would make the audience laugh,” Rothman and Lord recall in an […]
The welcomed marathon of new videos for tracks off Mike Will Made-It‘s Creed II: The Album continues with “Shea Butter Baby.” Catch the new video for the Ari Lennox and J. Cole collab, which also counts production credits from SHROOM and Elite, up top. The “Shea Butter Baby” video is the third Creed II-related visual accompaniment […]
Revenge of The Fans is reporting that Armie Hammer is in “final talks” to play the Caped Crusader in the upcoming Matt Reeves-directed Batman film. This report comes less than a week after Ben Affleck confirmed the obvious during his appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, stating his run as Batman had come to an end. “You know, I tried to direct […]
The Force is with the French, as their country has made lightsaber dueling an official sport. As reported by the Associated Press, the nation’s fencing federation officially recognized lightsaber dueling as a competitive sport. It has granted the LED-lit, polycarbonate replicas the same status as the foil, épée, and sabre blades used by Olympic fencers. This comes as France has experienced a spike in […]
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has, after receiving major pushback, decided to broadcast the awards for Cinematography, Film Editing, Live Action Short, and Makeup and Hairstyling live and not during commercial breaks, Deadline reports. Thank you @TheAcademy ! #Oscars2019 https://t.co/oCNna7FHYu — Haley Joel Osment (@HaleyJoelOsment) February 15, 2019 “The Academy has heard the feedback […]
