More than 200,000 people are dead. People are suffering in all the ways that life can provide: medically, economically, systemically, racially — and all of us are navigating the Covid-19 pandemic in the best ways we know. So when Washington Post columnist Alyssa Rosenberg penned an op-ed headlined It’s time to face reality, and to cancel the 2021 Oscars the eye-rolls were in full force.
By her measure, because films like “Bios,” “Black Widow,” “Bob’s Burgers,” “Candyman,” “Cruella,” “Deep Water,” “Dune,” “Eternals,” “F9,” “The French Dispatch,” ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,” “Godzilla vs. Kong,” “Halloween Kills,” “In the Heights,” “Jungle Cruise,” “King Richard,” “The Last Duel,” “The Many Saints of Newark,” “Minions: Rise of Gru,” “Morbius,” “The Nightingale,” “No Time to Die,” “Raya and the Last Dragon,” “Spiral: The Book of Saw,” “Tom & Jerry,” “Top Gun: Maverick,” “Venom: Let There Be Carnage,” “West Side Story” and “The Woman in the Window” have exited the eligibility period,...
By her measure, because films like “Bios,” “Black Widow,” “Bob’s Burgers,” “Candyman,” “Cruella,” “Deep Water,” “Dune,” “Eternals,” “F9,” “The French Dispatch,” ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,” “Godzilla vs. Kong,” “Halloween Kills,” “In the Heights,” “Jungle Cruise,” “King Richard,” “The Last Duel,” “The Many Saints of Newark,” “Minions: Rise of Gru,” “Morbius,” “The Nightingale,” “No Time to Die,” “Raya and the Last Dragon,” “Spiral: The Book of Saw,” “Tom & Jerry,” “Top Gun: Maverick,” “Venom: Let There Be Carnage,” “West Side Story” and “The Woman in the Window” have exited the eligibility period,...
- 10/12/2020
- by Clayton Davis
- Variety Film + TV
As acts of police violence have played out across social media and the nightly news, audiences have begun to rethink their relationship with cop movies. On Monday, critic Kathryn VanArendonk dug into the ironclad relationship television companies have formed with pro-police narratives. And on Thursday, Washington Post writer Alyssa Rosenberg made an impassioned please to put an end to cop narratives altogether. “There are always gaps between reality and fiction,” the latter wrote, “but given what policing in America has too often become, Hollywood’s version of it looks less like fantasy and more like complicity.”
In this period of reevaluation for cop films and television shows, it is good to revisit old favorites with new eyes.
Continue reading ‘Narc’: Revisiting Joe Carnahan’s Story About The Fallout Of Police Violence at The Playlist.
In this period of reevaluation for cop films and television shows, it is good to revisit old favorites with new eyes.
Continue reading ‘Narc’: Revisiting Joe Carnahan’s Story About The Fallout Of Police Violence at The Playlist.
- 6/5/2020
- by Matthew Monagle
- The Playlist
Warning: The following story contains spoilers about the fifth episode of “Game of Thrones” Season 8, “The Bells.”
Lena Headey has reaped four Best Drama Supporting Actress nominations at the Emmy Awards for playing Cersei Lannister on HBO’s “Game of Thrones.” Should she receive bid number five this year, she would become the second most nominated “Thrones” actor at the Emmys, just behind Peter Dinklage, who is projected to nab his eighth bid this year. After eight seasons of sublime work and an incredible performance in “The Bells,” it’s time for Headey to finally ascend the Emmy throne.
SEEYou’re invited to our Q&A: Meet music composers of ‘Game of Thrones,’ ‘Free Solo,’ ‘The Other Two,’ ‘When They See Us’
In the episode, a rage-driven Daenerys (Emilia Clarke) carries out her attack on King’s Landing after her failed attempt to make a truce with Cersei. First the Iron Fleet,...
Lena Headey has reaped four Best Drama Supporting Actress nominations at the Emmy Awards for playing Cersei Lannister on HBO’s “Game of Thrones.” Should she receive bid number five this year, she would become the second most nominated “Thrones” actor at the Emmys, just behind Peter Dinklage, who is projected to nab his eighth bid this year. After eight seasons of sublime work and an incredible performance in “The Bells,” it’s time for Headey to finally ascend the Emmy throne.
SEEYou’re invited to our Q&A: Meet music composers of ‘Game of Thrones,’ ‘Free Solo,’ ‘The Other Two,’ ‘When They See Us’
In the episode, a rage-driven Daenerys (Emilia Clarke) carries out her attack on King’s Landing after her failed attempt to make a truce with Cersei. First the Iron Fleet,...
- 5/19/2019
- by Luca Giliberti
- Gold Derby
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