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ICYMI: Catching Up with Our March Directors Close-Up Panels two weeks away–Thursday, April 22, airing LIVE on at 10:00 pm ET / 7:00 pm PT and hosted by SNL’s Melissa Villaseñor. Which also means there are only two more sessions left in our all-Spirit Awards edition of the 2021 Film Independent Directors Close-Up. Here’s what’s happened so far…   Best Director nominees Lee Isaac Chung (Writer/Director, Minari), Emerald Fennell (Writer/Director, Promising Young Woman), Eliza Hittma...

50m2 (Netflix) The title of this Turkish crime comedy refers to the size of a small room in a neighborhood in Istanbul — 50 square meters — that serves as the setting for this series and as a hideout for mobster tough guy known only as Shadow (Engin Ozturk). Raised as an orphan by the mob boss he works for, Shadow’s devoted his life to a specific narrative about his parents, but when it all turns inside-out on a chance encounter with a reporter, Shadow takes another man’s id...

Focus to distribute Letitia Wright movie Silent Twins By April 8 (UPI) -- Focus Features announced Thursday the studio will distribute the film Silent Twins. Letitia Wright and Tamara Lawrence star. Wright and Lawrence will play Jennifer and June Gibbons, twin sisters of the only Black family in Wales. In the 70s and 80s, the Gibbons twins get sent to Broadmoor psychiatric hospital after participating in a spree of vandalism. Advertisement Andrea Spiegel wrote the adaptation of Marjorie Walla...

Jamie Foxxs They Cloned Tyrone Wraps as Netflix Reveals First Image Jamie Foxxs They Cloned Tyrone Wraps as Netflix Reveals First Image The first image from Netflixs They Cloned Tyrone has been released as filming wraps on the sci-fi comedy. The first image has now been released from John Boyega and Jamie Foxxs upcoming science fiction comedy, They Cloned Tyrone. Along with the image, which depicts an unknown person (possibly Jamie Foxx) adorned in dazzling, gold jewellery, filming has also re...

The New Paper Daniel Kaluuya (centre) and LaKeith Stanfield (far right) reunite in Judas And The Black Messiah.PHOTO: WARNER BROS 0 Engagements This biopic is nominated for six Academy Awards this year, including Best Picture and Best Supporting Actor for its stars Daniel Kaluuya and Lakeith Stanfield. But the latter recognition has been a true head-scratcher. That is because it shortchanges the pair, who achieved international prominence after co-starring in 2017s Get Out and now turn in spect...

Sir Steve McQueen has requested I tell you a specific story. Warning: it has nothing to do with him. It’s my personal go-to “proof racism exists in the UK” story, the one I dig out from my past in response to “Things aren’t so bad in this country”. I’ve told it before, but who am I to deny McQueen, the Turner Prize-winning visual artist and Oscar-winning director, who last year received a knighthood for his services to art and film? Besides, after the events o...

If the novel’s composition matched the author’s conception, Courttia Newland’s A River Called Time would constitute a major accomplishment in speculative fiction. Newland creates a radically different Earth, devises a complex world-beyond-the-world of astral projection, and then, in the novel’s second half, sends his overwhelmed protagonist on an odyssey into further worlds.  What might our world look like if humanity were innocent of some of its foundational crimes? A River Called T...

Book Launch and Reading: “Boat People” Small Axe presents a reading and conversation to celebrate the launch of a bilingual edition of Boat People (Cardboard House Press, April 2021) by Mayra Santos-Febres, on Thursday, April 22, 2021, from 7:00 to 8:15pm (EST). The event, moderated by Yomaira C. Figueroa-Vásquez, will include the participation of the author, Santos-Febres, and the translator, Vanessa Pérez-Rosario. Description: In  Boat People (2005), Mayra Santos-Febres chronicles un...

SAG Award Wins Solidify The Crown, Ted Lasso, The Queens Gambit as Emmy Frontrunners Michael Schneider, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail There’s a double-edged sword to being singled out as an awards frontrunner. Yes, it’s a positive sign when pundits consider you the top contender to score a top prize. But be identified as the top of the pack too early, and you’ve immediately been handed a target on your back as the one to beat. So I suppose it’s a bit of an apology to Netflix’s “...

Viola Davis, Chadwick Boseman wins are a precursor to how the Oscars will play out