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Nicole Cooke-Johnson and her grandmother, Barbara Cooke, cried tears of joy the first time they saw Regina King's "One Night in Miami...." In fact, they were so moved they watched it twice. The film, written by Kemp Powers, who also co-directed Pixar's animated Oscar contender "Soul," imagines a conversation among Sam Cooke (Leslie Odom Jr.), Malcolm X (Kingsley Ben-Adir), Muhammad Ali (Eli Goree) and Jim Brown (Aldis Hodge). It marked the first time Cooke's granddaughter and widow had ever seen the soul legend portrayed onscreen. And Odom's performance — which earned him a supporting ac...

Print Nicole Cooke-Johnson and her grandmother, Barbara Cooke, cried tears of joy the first time they saw Regina King‘s “One Night in Miami....” In fact, they were so moved they watched it twice. The film, written by Kemp Powers, who also co-directed Pixar’s animated Oscar contender “Soul,” imagines a conversation among Sam Cooke (Leslie Odom Jr.), Malcolm X (Kingsley Ben-Adir), Muhammad Ali (Eli Goree) and Jim Brown (Aldis Hodge). It marked the first time Cooke’s granddaughter and widow had ever seen the soul legend portrayed onscreen. And Odom’s performance — which earn...

*Oscar Nominations: The Morning After By David Poland March 16, 2021 If a tree falls in the woods, but everyone is watching their TVs, does it make a noise? It’s been more than 24 hours since The Jonases, beautiful, talented, and from media other than film, adorably announced the *Oscar nominations. And for that day+, I have been – and it seems others have been, too – looking for something worth discussing about the nominations. And really… nothing. The same group of a dozen films considered in play for months went into the hopper and came out a little differently than other “precu...

February 25, 2021   ·   0 Comments By Robert Belardi  OPINION When I was just a boy I remember receiving my first handheld system that I could call my own. I had Sega’s Game Gear, but it was my father’s.  The moment my Game Boy Color first sat in the palms of my hands, I thought it was the most incredible thing. A D-pad on the left side of the system, an A and a B button stationed diagonally to the right side. The stop and start buttons right on the bottom. It was a see-through mechanism tainted with the colour purple.  My fa...

The road to Radha Blank’s intimate and hilariously autobiographical debut film, “The Forty-Year-Old Version,” began with her losing her first screenwriting job. Blank puts it even more bluntly. “One of my roles as an artist is to demystify things,” she says. “I got fired off that job. And I just wanted to create something I couldn’t get fired from.” A longtime struggling playwright, Blank developed her life story into a script about a 40-something Harlem-based theater artist who finds an unexpected outlet as an amateur rapper. “It was not my initial intention to make it as ...