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“Unmarked” – Lost [MOVIE REVIEW] SHARE Mount Zion Cemetery in Middletown, VA. An African American cemetery in use between 1801 and 1954. Photo courtesy of First Run Features, Mount Zion Cemetery in Middletown, VA. An African American cemetery in use between 1801 and 1954. Photo courtesy of First Run Features, “Unmarked,” a well-intentioned short documentary that seeks to shine a light on heritage lost and heritage found, focuses primarily on the unmarked and abandoned graves...

The title “Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time” (Greenwich/Kino Lorber) suggests life during the pandemic, but this haunting love story — Hungary’s Oscar entry — follows a surgeon who leaves the United States and returns to Bucharest, where she plans to reunite with a physician she met and fell in love with during a medical conference. That he claims not to remember her when she shows up in Hungary is but the first twist in this riveting tale from director Lili ...

Film festival favorite (and award-winner) “The Strong Ones” (Breaking Glass Pictures) continues a new wave of Chilean cinema that forthrightly and empathetically explores LGBTQ themes. In Omar Zúñiga Hidalgo’s smart and sexy debut feature, the romance between grad student Lucas (Samuel González) and fisherman Antonio (Antonio Altamirano) unfolds with ardor and passion, but the film never shies away from exploring the class disparity between the two characters or the assumptions that e...

Sonys "The Craft: Legacy," Hulus "Happiest Season" and Netflixs "Ma Raineys Black Bottom," "The Old Guard" and "The Prom" were the wide-release films nominated for the 32nd GLAAD Media Awards Thursday. The awards honor fair, accurate and inclusive representations of LGBTQ people and issues. Emmy-winning television series "Schitts Creek" along with the comedies "Big Mouth," "Dead to Me," "Love, Victor, "Sex Education," "Saved by the Bell" and "Superstore," and the dramas "Star Trek: Discovery," ...

Advertisement Recording artists Adam Lambert, Brandy Clark, Halsey, Kehlani, Lady Gaga, Miley Cyrus, Pabllo Vittar, Peppermint, Ricky Martin and Sam Smith were also nominated, along with talk show hosts Trevor Noah and Lilly Singh, CNN’s Jake Tapper and even “Sesame Street” star Elmo, who hosts “The Not-Too-Late Show.” “During an unprecedented year of crises and isolation, the nominees for the 32nd Annual GLAAD Media Awards reached LGBTQ people with powerful stories and inspired cou...

The Craft: Legacy and Ma Raineys Black Bottom Among Nominees at 2021 GLAAD Media Awards Movie The Craft reboot and the drama starring the late Chadwick Boseman lead the nominations at the upcoming GLAAD Media Awards as the two movies are up for the top prize. Jan 29, 2021 The Half of It" will compete for the best film prizes at the 2021 GLAAD Media Awards. Theyll face off with " The winners will be announced during a virtual ceremony scheduled for April (21) The GLAAD Media Awards salute the ...

Trump to honor 6 Alabamians with National Garden of American Heroes statues Updated Jan 18, 2021; Posted Jan 18, 2021 A Montgomery (Ala.) Sheriffs Department booking photo of Rosa Parks taken Feb 22, 1956, after she was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a bus for a white passenger on Dec. 1, 1955 in Montgomery, Ala. (AP Photo/Montgomery County Sheriffs office)AP Facebook Share Six Alabamians are among the more than 240 names of those chosen for inclusion in a proposed “National ...