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Civil War is Disturbingly on Point
I'm torn on this film, yet can't deny how disturbingly accurate it is for this moment in American history
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Having just screened Kate Winslet’s ‘Lee’ over the summer centering on the life and career of legendary war photojournalist Lee Miller, I was intrigued to see yet another film where the cinematic focal point would be around journalists and war.
Directed Alex Garland, Civil War follows seasoned war photographer, Lee (Kirsten Dunst) as she reflects on her life amdst two generations of journalists…
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#A24#black podast#cailee spaeny#civil war#civil war movie#jesse plemmons#kirsten dunst#nick offerman#podcast#political film
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Cannes 2024: Will Donald Trump Flick Make America Great Again
Ever heard of Roy Cohn? He was the infamous lawyer who taught the most famous Apprentice everything he knows and now its being dramatized in celluloid at the 2024 #Cannes festival.
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Here we go again! Another award season gone and now we get to start all over again with the Cannes right around the corner. Last year’s festival ended with Justine Triet’s Anatomy of a Fall taking home the Palme d’Or and Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest winning the Grand Prix. Both films were nominated for Best Picture at the 96th Oscars with Anatomy of a Fall winning the Best Original…
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#2024 Cannes Film Festival#black podcast#cannes#cannes film festival#Donald trump#emma stone#film festival#francis ford coppola#george miller#podcast#raoul peck#roy cohn#the apprentice#yorgos lanthimos
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CinemaCon Excites with Wicked Slates
Cinema is back with a little musical action, horror, westerns and more - all given the star treatment @CinemaCon #CinemaCon2024 #CinemaCon
For those not familiar with CinemaCon – it’s basically Comic Con for theater distributors, owners and vendors. Taking over Caesar’s Palace every Spring in Las Vegas, days are jam packed with panels, studio and award presentations, receptions and galas for those who have had a significant impact on the theatrical box office.
Opening Day – International folks get some love with panels on “Cinemas…
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#20th Century Studios#black podcast#cinemacon#cinemacon 2024#crunchyroll#festivals#films#lionsgate movies#marvel studios#movies#paramount pictures#pixar studios#podcast#walt disney studios#Warner Brothers Pictures
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Who Rules the World? Teenage Girls Set is Ablaze in Girls State
Did you know America is one of the few countries that has never had or entertained a woman POTUS? Maybe its time for that to change!
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In 2020, I screened Boys State, which centered around The American Legion Boys State and American Legion Auxiliary sponsored summer leadership and citizenship programs for high school juniors focusing on exploring the mechanics of American government and politics. It was fascinating until I witnessing the release of Girls State and what American democracy could actually look like in the…
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#abortion#Amanda McBaine#Apple TV plus#black podcast#boys state#documentary#girls state#Jesse Moss#missouri#podcast#political documentary#roe v wade#trigger law
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David Oyelowo Triumphs into Becoming King for SELMA
What does it take to embody one of the worlds most beloved icons. David Oyeleowo gives us the answer in #becomingking @paramountplus
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Every actor has a unique journey and process coming to a role and creating a character. In the case of David Oyelowo, not only was he inhabiting a character, but taking on the legendary civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in SELMA.
In her directorial debut, Jessica Oyelowo features behind-the-scenes footage, intimate home videos, interviews with friends and mentors like Ava DuVernay,…
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#becoming king#black podcast#civil rights movement#david oyelowo#documentaries#documentary#jessica oyelowo#Martin Luther King. Jr.#paramount plus#podcast
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The Greatest Hits Explores Time Travel for Love
How many times have you heard a song that instantly takes your mind back to solitary moment or person from your past? What if you could physically travel back with #TheGreatestHits from your life
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How many times have you heard someone say, “…that song really takes me back ?” What if that could really be a thing? What if a single song, an unforgettable sound, could literally take you back in time, literally? Harriet (Lucy Boynton) finds music imitating life when she discovers songs shared with her former boyfriend can take her back to the scene of the moment, giving her a second chance…
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#Austin Crute#black podcast#Justin H. Min#Lucy Boynton#podcast#romanctic drama#searchlight pictures#the greatest hits#time travel
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Housekeeping For Beginners Proves Chosen Family Provides Love in Abundance
Being 'othered' is never an easy existence. But, it can be a smooth pill to swallow when family - chosen or not has your back #housekeepingforbeginners #podcast
Ever heard people make remarks about the family they are born into and family that is chosen from a group of friends or peers. Director Goran Stolevski bring audiences a story that literally came from an old photograph posted on Facebook by a friend exploring the universal truths of family, both the ones we’re born into and the ones we find for ourselves.
Dita (Anamaria Marinca) is a…
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#black podcast#chosen family#family#focus features#Goran Stolevski#housekeeping for beginners#lgbtq stories#podcast
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Monkey Man is Action Packed Love Letter to Bruce Lee via Dev Patel
Dev Patel directorial debut with #MonkeyMan fires on all cylinders - my boy DID ALL OF THAT!
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It was not lost on Oscar nominee Dev Patel, at the premiere of his directorial debut, he was standing in the very same theatre where his first premiere had been held for “Lion” just a few short years ago. Looking back at the bigger than life screen, he humbly reflected on that moment, while issuing thanks and bringing his cast to share in the accolades at his side. As heartwarming as this…
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Reneé Rapp, Auli'i Cravalho and Jaquel Spivey Steal Show in Mean Girls
In celebration of the 20th Anniversary of the original #MeanGirls - Paramount Pictures will release the 2004 version for the first time on 4K Ultra HD
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Directed by Casey Nicholaw, the stage adaptation of Tina Fey’s 2004 comedy opened at the August Wilson Theatre April 8, 2018 and played 21 previews, 801 performances, earned 12 Tony Award nominations including Best Musical prior to a COVID-19 pandemic shut down resulting in its final performance on March 11, 2020.
Originally adapted by Tina Fey from Rosalind Wiseman’s Queen Bees and Wannabes,…
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#auli&039;i cravalho#black podcast#broadway#broadway musicals#jaquel spivey#mean girls#Mean Girls Reneé Rapp#moana#musical#musicals#podcast#renee rapp#Tina Fey
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Michael Keaton is Heartbreaking in Knox Goes Away
Keaton leads a cast of amazing actors in heartbreaking hitman flick
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Michael Keaton returns to double duty, directing and acting in this crime drama about a hitman who is diagnosed with a fast-moving form of dementia, with one last task to take care of before he can fade away.
After a job goes horribly wrong, John Knox (Michael Keaton) resigns himself to the knowledge that his contract killing days are over and starts gathering his assets to cash out. One night,…
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#action#adventure#Alzheimer&039;s Disease#black podcast#crime#dementia#james marsden#knox goes away#marcia gay harden#Michael Keaton#podcast#suzy nakamura
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Regina King Pays Homage to Iconic Activist/Politician Shirley Chisholm
Many women politicians owe their political career to the one and only Shirley Chisholm - the first to run for POTUS in 1972 #netflix #shirleymovie #podcast
In 1968, there were 435 elected representatives to the house of Congress. 11 of those representatives were women, five representatives were Black and absolutely zero were Black women. Making a mere $42,500 yearly salary, dealing eloquently not silently with racism, sexism and being told she can run for President but may not win, Shirley Chisholm blazed the trail wide open for women when she ran…
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#black podcast#civil rights activist#netflix#podcast#politician#politics#Regina King#shirley#shirley chisholm
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Jake Gyllenhaal Shines in Roadhouse
#Roadhouse brings 80's nostalgia and Jake Gyllenhaal abs back to the theaters big screen #podcast
In 1989, the late Patrick Swayze hit screens as a bouncer, armed with a black belt in karate and a Ph.D. in philosophy hired to clean up the baddest honky tonk in a Missouri town with Roadhouse. Now, more than 40 years later Jake Gyllenhaal brings Dalton back to theaters, who is barely scraping by on the reputation that still precedes him when he is spotted by Frankie, owner of a roadhouse in the…
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Remembering Gene Wilder is Heartfelt and Love Letter for Fans
Nobody does comedy or drama better than the late Gene Wilder, but he is my forever Willy Wonka
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Between his many onscreen collaborations with Richard Pryor (Silver Streak, Stir Crazy, See No Evil Hear No Evil, and Another You), marrying one of my SNL favs Gilda Radner, partnering up with Mel Brooks and inhabiting the iconic character of Willy Wonka, Gene Wilder is hands down one of my favorite comedic talents.
From his humble beginnings in Milwaukee to the journey on Broadway that would…
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#Alzheimer&039;s Disease#black podcast#Blazing Saddles#documentaries#documentary#gene wilder#gilda radner#Mel Brooks#podcast#remembering gene wilder#Saturday Night Live#snl#Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory#Young Frankenstien
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SXSW: The World According to Allee Willis
To know Allee Willis is to love her any zest for life, the arts and humanity as a whole.
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Shortly after a chance meeting with Bruce Vilanch and Allee Willis after a cabaret in Los Angeles, I would get these invitations to “kitsch” parties from Allee. Regretfully, I never attended and after screening this doc, I am confident I missed out on teh opporutnity of a lifetime.
Willis’s songs have sold over 60 million records, including Earth, Wind & Fire’s “September”(which was inducted…
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#allee willis#beverly hill cop#docuementary#documentaries#earth wind and fire#patti labelle#recroding artist#september#songwriter#sxsw#sxsw 2024#the color purple#the world according to allee willis
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SXSW: Plastic People
Did you know most plastic is not recyclable & Less than 10% of plastic worldwide ever gets recycled.
#plasticpeople #documentary #SXSW2024 #SXSW
One never really realizes the environmental impact of everyday items we use in the 21st century from toothbrushes to carpets to hair used for faux locs, braids, wigs and weaves. There is plastic that has been ingested living within your body right now that could possible become an invisible invader to your health. Can anything be done to stop the invasion ultimately making us plastic…
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#black podcast#documentaries#documentary#environment#microplastics#plastic people#podcast#recycling#sxsw#sxsw 2024
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SXSW: Shaking It Up: The Life & TImes of Liz Carpenter
#LizCarpenter was the blueprint not only for women in politics for women reporters.
#shakingupthelifeandtimesofLizCarpenter #documentary #SXSW2024 #SXSW
You most likely would not be reading these words dripping from my fingertips had it not been for one of most formidable, outspoken journalists who ever dropped a byline – Liz Carpenter. From the JFK assassination to campaigning for ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment, Carpenter experienced and helped shape some of the most vivid moments and movements of the 20th century.
A proud Texan,…
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#documentary#black podcast#documentaries#ERA#lady bird johnson#lyndon johnson#podcast#policy#political documentary#politics#shaking up the life and times of liz carpenter#sxsw#sxsw 2024#Texas#women&039;s rights
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SXSW: Shaking It Up: The Life & TImes of Liz Carpenter
#LizCarpenter was the blueprint not only for women in politics for women reporters.
#shakingupthelifeandtimes ofLizCarpenter #documentary #SXSW2024 #SXSW
You most likely would not be reading these words dripping from my fingertips had it not been for one of most formidable, outspoken journalists who ever dropped a byline – Liz Carpenter. From the JFK assassination to campaigning for ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment, Carpenter experienced and helped shape some of the most vivid moments and movements of the 20th century.
A proud Texan,…
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#black podcast#documentaries#documentary#ERA#lady bird johnson#lyndon johnson#podcast#policy#political documentary#politics#shaking up the life and times of liz carpenter#sxsw#sxsw 2024#Texas#women&039;s rights
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