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Rasheeda Williams, a Black trans woman who starred as Koko da Doll in the award-winning documentary Kokomo City, was shot and killed in Atlanta on Tuesday night. She was 35 years old. Variety reports police found Williams with a gunshot wound in Southwest Atlanta. She was pronounced dead at the scene. “Homicide investigators responded to the scene and are working […]
Talk to Me, still fresh off its praise-garnering premiere at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, will be hitting theaters this July via A24. But first, directors Danny and Michael Philippou have delivered what’s been billed as the “scariest A24 trailer ever, hands down.” Per the official synopsis for the film, written by Danny Philippou and […]
What’s your favorite movie? Not the one you keep tucked in your back pocket to whip out in ill-advised battles of impressiveness, or increasingly antiquated posturing, but your favorite movie. The ones that crawl into our veins and burrow themselves deep into our bones the first time we see them. And the more we watch, […]
Dakota Johnson kicked off the 2023 Sundance Film Festival with a biting joke about Armie Hammer, who in 2021 was accused by exes of having cannibalism fantasies. As reported by The Hollywood Reporter, Johnson took the stage at Sundance’s “A Taste of Sundance” dinner on Thursday night to present director Luca Guadagnino with the international icon award. Guadagnino’s 2017 film Call […]
For almost two decades, W. Kamau Bell has spent his career making audiences laugh as a stand-up comedian, and think introspectively as host of CNN’s United Shades of America. Now, with his Sundance 2022 debut, Bell tackles the subject of Bill Cosby in his highly anticipated and much talked about documentary, We Need to Talk […]
It’s a shame that the future of indie movie theaters is so uncertain. In another timeline, Nine Days would be a perfect fodder for small cinemas, a date movie for a person you’re trying really hard to impress. The new movie, which just got its first trailer, stars Zazie Beetz and Winston Duke as unborn souls in a sort […]
Big Time Adolescence, the 2019-premiered Sundance Film Festival hit starring Pete Davidson, is finally getting a wide release next month by way of Hulu. The drama/comedy also stars Colson Baker (a.k.a. Machine Gun Kelly), Griffin Gluck, Sydney Sweeney, Jon Cryer, and more. Image via Hulu/NEON Up top, catch the just-released red band trailer. Big Time […]
It’s official. A24 has delivered another banger. After some huge anticipation, the boutique studio behind Uncut Gems finally lifted the veil on director Janicza Bravo’s Zola, the long-awaited film inspired by a viral 2015 tweetstorm. For those who have trouble remembering that far back, here’s a quick refresher: On Oct. 27, 2015, a woman named Aziah “Zola” King posted an epic thread about her […]
Eminem said that he’s spent his entire career chasing after the spark of The Marshall Mathers LP in a new interview with Sway Calloway. The rapper revealed in the virtual reality interview, Marshall From Detroit, that the album was the perfect confluence of events in his life and a national mood that he’s been trying to […]
RZA and Ghostface Killah continue to expand their filmography. Deadline reports the hip-hop legends and producer Shaun Redick (Get Out, BlacKkKlansman) are teaming up to develop Angel of Dust, a “suspense horror thriller” RZA will direct. The film is reportedly inspired by true events the Wu-Tang Clan experienced while growing up in the Staten Island Projects. Ghostface developed […]
