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Three heroes find their fates and powers intertwined in Nia DaCosta's 'The Marvels,' starring Brie Larson, Teyonah Parris and Iman Vellani.
Benedict Cumberbatch Is a Spy With Soul in The Courier—But He's Not the Only Reason to Watch Time 1 hr ago © Courtesy of Lionsgate Merab Ninidze and Benedict Cumberbatch in 'The Courier' The trappings of spycraft we see in the movies—the tiny cameras, the furtive code words uttered into pay phones, the trench-coated figures darting about in the shadows—are now so familiar that they come across as anything but secretive. But in real life, a spy has to merge into his or her surroundings like a whisper. You couldn’t cast a more convincing spy than Benedict Cumberbatch, a star whose ...
The Costumes in 'Judas and the Black Messiah' Offer a History Lesson in Social Justice How costume designer Charlese Antoinette helped transform Daniel Kaluuya into Black Panther Party Chairman Fred Hampton. Author: Photo: Glen Wilson/Courtesy of Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. How costume designer Charlese Antoinette helped transform Daniel Kaluuya into Black Panther Party Chairman Fred Hampton. "There are a lot of people anticipating his story being told," says "Judas and the Black Messiah" costume designer Charlese Antoinette, about the gravity and expectation involved in bringing the sto...
An electrifying film, Judas and the Black Messiah is based on the history of the FBI and Chicago Police Department’s involvement in the 1969 assassination of deputy chairman of the Illinois Black Panther Party Fred Hampton. Under the direction of Shaka King, who co-wrote the movie with Will Berson (from a story by Keith and Kenneth Lucas) “Judas & the Black Messiah” gives viewers an inside look at the events leading up to the murder, while also reclaiming his story and memorializing him as an exuberant leader and revolutionary hero. David Kaluuya, who was nominated by the Oscars for his...
One of the most jarring notes in the 2018 Marvel film Black Panther is the character of Everett Ross, a white CIA operative who fights alongside Wakandans to defeat the Black militant Killmonger. Never mind that for decades, the real CIA surveilled and murdered many African revolutionaries and Black Panthers. Spike Leeâs BlacKkKlansman (also 2018) features a similar sugar coat, making Ron Stallworth, the Black cop who infiltrated the KKK, into a hero, while papering over his role in counter-intelligence programmes targeting Black radical...