There will be spoilers for "Andor" Episode 7 - "Announcement"
The newest episode of "Andor" shows how the common people in the galaxy are growing weary of their oppression under the fascist boot of the Empire. With the new measures and harsh taxes being imposed in the wake of the Aldhani garrison attack that Cassian Andor was instrumental in, hope is rising for rebels everywhere. But as the show gives us these sparks of Rebellion, it shows us the rise of the Empire as well.
The Ferrix Massacre
In a series of flashbacks, we're given a window into the history of Ferrix and Cassian Andor's past. In the weeks and months after the formation of the Empire, they occupy planets across the galaxy in a show of force. You'll notice the Clone Troopers marching to the orders of Imperial officers in the flashback, hearkening back to the earliest days of the Empire.
The newest episode of "Andor" shows how the common people in the galaxy are growing weary of their oppression under the fascist boot of the Empire. With the new measures and harsh taxes being imposed in the wake of the Aldhani garrison attack that Cassian Andor was instrumental in, hope is rising for rebels everywhere. But as the show gives us these sparks of Rebellion, it shows us the rise of the Empire as well.
The Ferrix Massacre
In a series of flashbacks, we're given a window into the history of Ferrix and Cassian Andor's past. In the weeks and months after the formation of the Empire, they occupy planets across the galaxy in a show of force. You'll notice the Clone Troopers marching to the orders of Imperial officers in the flashback, hearkening back to the earliest days of the Empire.
- 10/19/2022
- by Bryan Young
- Slash Film
There will be spoilers for "Andor" Episode VII - "Announcement"
"Announcement," the seventh episode of "Andor," shows us that everyone in a fascist galaxy is living in a prison of some kind. As news of the heist on Aldhani reaches Coruscant, the Emperor — by way of the Imperial Security Bureau — cracks down on rebel activity across the galaxy, tightening his grip. Life is made more difficult for every character as the walls close in.
Mon Mothma (Genevieve O'Reilly) flounders for more allies. Luthen Rael (Stellan Skarsgård) struggles to tie up loose ends and keep himself from being exposed. Syril Karn (Kyle Soller) struggles to find a place in a system that discarded him. For his part, Cassian Andor (Diego Luna) foolishly goes back home to Ferrix to find out the boot of Imperial oppression is standing on the throats of all of his loved ones. With little recourse and his...
"Announcement," the seventh episode of "Andor," shows us that everyone in a fascist galaxy is living in a prison of some kind. As news of the heist on Aldhani reaches Coruscant, the Emperor — by way of the Imperial Security Bureau — cracks down on rebel activity across the galaxy, tightening his grip. Life is made more difficult for every character as the walls close in.
Mon Mothma (Genevieve O'Reilly) flounders for more allies. Luthen Rael (Stellan Skarsgård) struggles to tie up loose ends and keep himself from being exposed. Syril Karn (Kyle Soller) struggles to find a place in a system that discarded him. For his part, Cassian Andor (Diego Luna) foolishly goes back home to Ferrix to find out the boot of Imperial oppression is standing on the throats of all of his loved ones. With little recourse and his...
- 10/19/2022
- by Bryan Young
- Slash Film
With “Da 5 Bloods,” writer, director and producer Spike Lee tells a story about Black Vietnam War veterans who “fought and died for a country that has not shown love to them.” But that legacy goes all the way back to the founding of the United States of America. Watch our exclusive video interview with Lee above.
See‘Da 5 Bloods’ producer Jon Kilik on film’s logistical hurdles, Spike Lee’s vision and Chadwick Boseman’s ‘mythic presence’ [Exclusive Video Interview]
The title soldiers in Lee’s film return to Vietnam in the present day to retrieve the remains of their squad leader (played in flashbacks by the late Chadwick Boseman) as well as a hidden stash of gold. But they’re also still struggling with the trauma of their service. It’s not a new story for African-Americans to die for a country that continually betrays them, “from Crispus Attucks, who was...
See‘Da 5 Bloods’ producer Jon Kilik on film’s logistical hurdles, Spike Lee’s vision and Chadwick Boseman’s ‘mythic presence’ [Exclusive Video Interview]
The title soldiers in Lee’s film return to Vietnam in the present day to retrieve the remains of their squad leader (played in flashbacks by the late Chadwick Boseman) as well as a hidden stash of gold. But they’re also still struggling with the trauma of their service. It’s not a new story for African-Americans to die for a country that continually betrays them, “from Crispus Attucks, who was...
- 3/5/2021
- by Daniel Montgomery
- Gold Derby
Walt Disney, Frank Capra, Whitney Houston, Billie Holiday, Johnny Cash and Alex Trebek are among the entertainment industry figures who have been added as proposed honorees in the National Garden of American Heroes monument project unveiled by President Donald Trump in July.
As he began his final 48 hours as President, Trump issued an amended executive order Monday that added dozens of names slated to be honored in the the planned statuary park. The location for the park has yet to be determined. Trump first announced the plan on July 3 during his speech at Mt. Rushmore.
Among the entertainment-related names making the cut are Louis Armstrong, Lauren Bacall, Ingrid Bergman, Irving Berlin, Humphrey Bogart, Kobe Bryant, Frank Capra, Ray Charles, Nat King Cole, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Aretha Franklin, Woody Guthrie, Charlton Heston, Alfred Hitchcock, Bob Hope, Elvis Presley and Jimmy Stewart. The monument will honor those deemed to be “historically...
As he began his final 48 hours as President, Trump issued an amended executive order Monday that added dozens of names slated to be honored in the the planned statuary park. The location for the park has yet to be determined. Trump first announced the plan on July 3 during his speech at Mt. Rushmore.
Among the entertainment-related names making the cut are Louis Armstrong, Lauren Bacall, Ingrid Bergman, Irving Berlin, Humphrey Bogart, Kobe Bryant, Frank Capra, Ray Charles, Nat King Cole, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Aretha Franklin, Woody Guthrie, Charlton Heston, Alfred Hitchcock, Bob Hope, Elvis Presley and Jimmy Stewart. The monument will honor those deemed to be “historically...
- 1/18/2021
- by Cynthia Littleton
- Variety Film + TV
The Michael Jordan documentary series “The Last Dance” was one of the year’s most talked about sports programs on TV, but he’s not the basketball star who could actually win an Emmy this year. That would be Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, who’s nominated for Best Narrator for the one-hour documentary “Black Patriots: Heroes of the Revolution.” That makes him a rare sports star to cross over into show business recognition. And his voice could especially resonate with voters at a time amid protests that have increased public consciousness about Black lives and Black history.
“Black Patriots” aired on the History Channel in February for Black History Month, and it told the story of African-Americans who were important figures in the American Revolution including Boston Massacre victim Crispus Attucks, slave-turned-soldier Peter Salem, author Phillis Wheatley and revolutionary spy James Armistead Lafayette. Rewarding Abdul-Jabbar here could serve to doubly honor his...
“Black Patriots” aired on the History Channel in February for Black History Month, and it told the story of African-Americans who were important figures in the American Revolution including Boston Massacre victim Crispus Attucks, slave-turned-soldier Peter Salem, author Phillis Wheatley and revolutionary spy James Armistead Lafayette. Rewarding Abdul-Jabbar here could serve to doubly honor his...
- 8/14/2020
- by Daniel Montgomery
- Gold Derby
Since Spike Lee burst onto the scene in 1986, the timeliness of his movies has been the filmmaker’s calling card — with Lee assembling a body of work that meditates on world events in a way that seems almost prescient. So, with his latest joint, “Da 5 Bloods” debuting on Netflix amid a groundswell of support for the Black Lives Matter movement after the recent deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Tony McDade at the hands of police, the filmmaker feels there’s no better moment for his film to debut.
“I cannot take any credit for this. The film was shot when it was shot; it was ready to come out when it was ready to come out. And then the world changed for everybody,” Lee tells Variety about the timing of the film’s release. “When something is repeated all the time it becomes a cliché … but that...
“I cannot take any credit for this. The film was shot when it was shot; it was ready to come out when it was ready to come out. And then the world changed for everybody,” Lee tells Variety about the timing of the film’s release. “When something is repeated all the time it becomes a cliché … but that...
- 6/12/2020
- by Angelique Jackson
- Variety Film + TV
Spike Lee appeared on The Daily Show Thursday night to discuss his new film Da 5 Bloods, a historical Vietnam War drama that’s streaming now on Netflix.
Following the journey of four African-American veterans as they travel back to Vietnam to search for what their former squad leader left behind, the film connects the turmoil of the Vietnam War period to what’s happening to black Americans today, a la Lee’s previous film, BlacKkKlansman.
“People are more apt to enjoy a historical piece if in some way, shape or form,...
Following the journey of four African-American veterans as they travel back to Vietnam to search for what their former squad leader left behind, the film connects the turmoil of the Vietnam War period to what’s happening to black Americans today, a la Lee’s previous film, BlacKkKlansman.
“People are more apt to enjoy a historical piece if in some way, shape or form,...
- 6/12/2020
- by Claire Shaffer
- Rollingstone.com
Spike Lee stopped in online to talk with Trevor Noah about his new film Da 5 Bloods, which depicts African American vets returning to Vietnam to seek the remains of their fallen squad leader and the gold fortune he helped them hide.
Lee’s talk topics rambled from Crispus Attucks to Colin Kaepernick to the New York Knicks, but in between, he made his point about the state of America and why African Americans are wound into its fabric: “We built this bitch.”
The interview went well for Noah, as Lee ended it with an open invitation to join him for drinks or dinner “A.C.,” or “After Corona”
“We know who’s paying,” Noah said, laughing.
Watch the interview above.
Lee’s talk topics rambled from Crispus Attucks to Colin Kaepernick to the New York Knicks, but in between, he made his point about the state of America and why African Americans are wound into its fabric: “We built this bitch.”
The interview went well for Noah, as Lee ended it with an open invitation to join him for drinks or dinner “A.C.,” or “After Corona”
“We know who’s paying,” Noah said, laughing.
Watch the interview above.
- 6/12/2020
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
Spike Lee fans, get ready: “Da 5 Bloods” takes the filmmaker’s familiar obsessions to an extreme, douses them in wartime grief and bloody jungle showdowns, all without an iota of compromise. In Lee’s lively, discursive look at a quartet of black Vietnam vets searching for their old squad leader’s remains (and the gold that was lost with him), the filmmaker’s voice permeates each scene with such mighty force it’s a wonder he never pulls a Porky Pig and bursts into the center of the frame.
“Da 5 Bloods” doesn’t always gel as it careens through overstuffed plot twists and disparate tones, with some big moments better executed than others. Still, that freewheeling energy is in short supply, and
Unfolding across an unusual pace for two and a half hours, “Da 5 Bloods” feels like a pair of intriguing movies jammed together. For its first 90 minutes or so,...
“Da 5 Bloods” doesn’t always gel as it careens through overstuffed plot twists and disparate tones, with some big moments better executed than others. Still, that freewheeling energy is in short supply, and
Unfolding across an unusual pace for two and a half hours, “Da 5 Bloods” feels like a pair of intriguing movies jammed together. For its first 90 minutes or so,...
- 6/10/2020
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
Spike Lee has history on his mind in Da 5 Bloods. That almost should go without saying for the kinetic, unambiguous filmmaker whose ambition is always to find the bigger picture. But as it turns out, even the framing device of the Vietnam War is not large enough for his latest effort. Rather Da 5 Bloods grapples with the ugly history of all American wars, and the Black bodies that lay in their foundations. This reality is present from the opening moments when Muhammad Ali’s refusal to fight in the jungles of Southeast Asia is juxtaposed with Apollo 11 landing on the moon; and it’s there when Chadwick Boseman recalls the death of Crispus Attucks too.
“We was the first to die for this red, white, and blue,” Boseman’s Stormin’ Norman tells his Bloods-in-arms back in ’71. “Yeah, that’s right, it was a soul brother. Crispus Attucks at the Boston Massacre.
“We was the first to die for this red, white, and blue,” Boseman’s Stormin’ Norman tells his Bloods-in-arms back in ’71. “Yeah, that’s right, it was a soul brother. Crispus Attucks at the Boston Massacre.
- 6/10/2020
- by David Crow
- Den of Geek
The History Channel announced on Saturday a one-hour documentary featuring NBA star, author, activist and contributor to The Hollywood Reporter, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
Titled Black Patriots, the documentary will paint "a comprehensive picture of the African American experience during the Revolutionary War." Further, it looks at the story of the war within the revolution through the lens of "some of the most crucial and significant African American figures of our country’s foundation including Crispus Attucks, Peter Salem, Phillis Wheatley and James Armistead Lafayette."
In a statement, Abdul-Jabbar said, "Since retiring from the NBA, I've ...
Titled Black Patriots, the documentary will paint "a comprehensive picture of the African American experience during the Revolutionary War." Further, it looks at the story of the war within the revolution through the lens of "some of the most crucial and significant African American figures of our country’s foundation including Crispus Attucks, Peter Salem, Phillis Wheatley and James Armistead Lafayette."
In a statement, Abdul-Jabbar said, "Since retiring from the NBA, I've ...
- 1/19/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
NBA legend and activist Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is teaming up with History on a documentary on the African American experience during the Revolutionary War.
Titled “Black Patriots,” the doc tells the story of some of the most significant Black figures from the time period including Crispus Attucks, Peter Salem, Phillis Wheatley and James Armistead Lafayette. History unveiled the doc during its Television Critics’ Association winter press tour day and also set the premiere date of Wednesday, Feb. 19.
“Since retiring from the NBA, I’ve been writing books and articles to bring awareness to the public of the many overlooked African-Americans in history who have contributed so much to American society. ‘Black Patriots’ chronicles the surprising, crucial, and often ignored role the black people played in the creation of our country,” said Abdul-Jabbar. “Here’s something we never learned in school: George Washington said that African-Americans were pivotal to winning the Revolutionary War.
Titled “Black Patriots,” the doc tells the story of some of the most significant Black figures from the time period including Crispus Attucks, Peter Salem, Phillis Wheatley and James Armistead Lafayette. History unveiled the doc during its Television Critics’ Association winter press tour day and also set the premiere date of Wednesday, Feb. 19.
“Since retiring from the NBA, I’ve been writing books and articles to bring awareness to the public of the many overlooked African-Americans in history who have contributed so much to American society. ‘Black Patriots’ chronicles the surprising, crucial, and often ignored role the black people played in the creation of our country,” said Abdul-Jabbar. “Here’s something we never learned in school: George Washington said that African-Americans were pivotal to winning the Revolutionary War.
- 1/18/2020
- by Will Thorne
- Variety Film + TV
History has set a Presidents’ Day Weekend rollout for Washington, a three-night docudrama executive-produced by renowned historian Doris Kearns Goodwin. The cabler also has announced premieres for docus about Auschwitz and the African American experience during the Revolutionary War.
Narrated by Jeff Daniels (The Newsroom), Washington will air in nightly two-hour installments on Sunday, Feb. 16, Monday, Feb. 17 and Tuesday, Feb. 18, all at 8/7c. The event will explore the arc of the first president’s journey and weave together dramatic live-action sequences, excerpts from Washington’s letters, and insights from a roster of experts, including President Bill Clinton, former Secretary of State Colin Powell,...
Narrated by Jeff Daniels (The Newsroom), Washington will air in nightly two-hour installments on Sunday, Feb. 16, Monday, Feb. 17 and Tuesday, Feb. 18, all at 8/7c. The event will explore the arc of the first president’s journey and weave together dramatic live-action sequences, excerpts from Washington’s letters, and insights from a roster of experts, including President Bill Clinton, former Secretary of State Colin Powell,...
- 1/18/2020
- TVLine.com
NBA legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar has teamed with History on Black Patriots, a one-hour documentary chronicling the role of African Americans during the Revolutionary War. It’s set to premiere Wednesday, February 19 at 10 Pm on History. It was announced today as part of History’s presentation at the TCA Winter Press Tour.
Per History’s official description, Black Patriots paints a comprehensive picture of the African American experience during the Revolutionary War and shares the story of the war within the revolution through the eyes of some of the most crucial and significant African American figures of our country’s foundation including Crispus Attucks, Peter Salem, Phillis Wheatley and James Armistead Lafayette.
Abdul-Jabbar will anchor the documentary and executive produce with Deborah Morales.
“Since retiring from the NBA, I’ve been writing books and articles to bring awareness to the public of the many overlooked African-Americans in history who have contributed so much to American society.
Per History’s official description, Black Patriots paints a comprehensive picture of the African American experience during the Revolutionary War and shares the story of the war within the revolution through the eyes of some of the most crucial and significant African American figures of our country’s foundation including Crispus Attucks, Peter Salem, Phillis Wheatley and James Armistead Lafayette.
Abdul-Jabbar will anchor the documentary and executive produce with Deborah Morales.
“Since retiring from the NBA, I’ve been writing books and articles to bring awareness to the public of the many overlooked African-Americans in history who have contributed so much to American society.
- 1/18/2020
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
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