Movies
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If You Didn’t Listen to The Preacher’s Wife Soundtrack, Did Christmas Even Happen?
Christmas has always been my favorite holiday. My family always cooked just as much food as they did on Thanksgiving, but I got presents as a bonus. Win-win. In my excitement, I was always first in line to help put up the Christmas tree and decorations for the year. Of course, once I was old…
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Melina Matsoukas Wasn’t Surprised About the Golden Globes Snub, Says Voters Refused to Watch Queen & Slim
Every year it’s the same ol’ dance—there’s a major award ceremony nominations announcement, congratulatory messages are thrown about, quickly followed by snubbing outrage. That tradition was no different following the recent nominations announcement for the 2020 Golden Globes. According to Variety, Queen & Slim director Melina Matsoukas didn’t seem to be too surprised that her…
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Purple Rain and She’s Gotta Have It Among 5 African American Films Added to National Film Registry
The Library of Congress has announced 25 new films to add to its National Film Registry for 2019. Of the 25 films that are “selected because of their cultural, historic and aesthetic importance to the nation’s film heritage,” five of them are created by and/or centered around African Americans. Those black films are Purple Rain,…
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Just Mercy: 'Bryan Stevenson's Impact Has Been Felt, Even If You Don't Know Him Just Yet'
In 1988, lawyer and activist Bryan Stevenson sought to give voice to Walter McMillian, a man wrongfully imprisoned for the murder of a white woman. In 2020, Just Mercy will give a new voice to their story. In an exclusive clip obtained by The Root to honor Global Human Rights Day, some of the cast…
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Chad Boys: Before Will Smith and Martin Lawrence, These Two Actors Were Considered for Bad Boys
There are two undeniably difficult things in life: getting up to go to work on Monday morning after a four-day weekend and imagining Bad Boys without Will Smith and Martin Lawrence. Well, thanks to the inner-workings of Hollywood, you have to imagine it today. Twitter account @BHMatter (Black Heroes Matter) posted a screenshot of James…
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Report: Apple TV+ and Oprah Winfrey Announce #MeToo Documentary with Russell Simmons Accuser as Primary Subject
Trigger Warning: The following article contains details of an alleged sexual assault. The lineup for the 2020 Sundance Film Festival was announced on Wednesday and there is one particular mysterious project that stands out. According to an Apple TV+ press release, the untitled Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering documentary, executive produced by Oprah Winfrey and…
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No Time To Die: Hell Yeah, Lashana Lynch Is a 00 Agent
The name’s Lynch—Lashana Lynch. The first official trailer for the next Daniel Craig-led James Bond franchise film No Time To Die has arrived. The film’s synopsis, according to IMDb: Bond has left active service. His peace is short-lived when his old friend Felix Leiter from the CIA turns up asking for help, leading Bond onto…
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Black Woodstock: Questlove to Direct Documentary on Untold Story of the Harlem Cultural Festival
Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson of The Roots (sidenote: for all the times The Root, the publication, gets mistaken for The Roots, the band, it would be dope if one time we, The Root, hosted a meta panel with live sounds from The Roots) will be making his directorial debut in the upcoming feature documentary titled, Black…
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A Michael Jackson Biopic Is Coming and the Estate Authorized Use of the King of Pop's Music
There are two films chronicling Michael Jackson’s life that always seems to cause discussion in the black community: the amazing miniseries The Jacksons: An American Dream and whatever Flex Alexander was doing in Man in the Mirror: The Michael Jackson Story. Well, it looks like we’re about to get yet another Michael Jackson biopic, which…