Month: March 2024

EXCLUSIVE: Level 33 Entertainment has taken domestic on H.P. Mendoza’s The Secret Art of Human Flight, which made its world premiere at last year’s Tribeca Film Festival. A July theatrical release has been set followed by a debut on digital platforms. Pic written by Jesse Orenshein centers around a children’s book author, Ben Grady (Grant Rosenmeyer),
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Netflix Shirley Wonderfully and metaphorically described as “100 pounds of nuclear energy,” Oscar and four-time Emmy winner Regina King’s marvelous performance as pioneering Black congresswoman Shirley Chisholm is reason enough to check out this entertaining docudrama that depicts her quixotic but inspiring run in 1972 for the Democratic presidential nomination. Her belief in herself and
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Agree to disagree, Kylie Kelce! The wife of Philadelphia Eagles legend Jason Kelce is reacting with her signature good humor after a clip of her Irish dancing skills went viral earlier this week, declaring that she had “no business” showing off her moves.  “I haven’t Irish danced since probably seventh grade, and that is with the exception
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Kendra Winchester is a Contributing Editor for Book Riot where she writes about audiobooks and disability literature. She is also the Founder of Read Appalachia, which celebrates Appalachian literature and writing. Previously, Kendra co-founded and served as Executive Director for Reading Women, a podcast that gained an international following over its six-season run. In her
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A little black box appears on health care and employment forms, census surveys and other official documents, requiring respondents to confine their racial identity to a single space that allows no fine distinctions. As Henry Louis Gates Jr. points out in his eloquent and powerful The Black Box: Writing the Race, such boxes are metaphors
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Cineworld Group, the world’s second largest theater circuit, said today it’s completed its executive team following the 2023 appointment of CEO Eduardo Acuna after the company emerged from bankruptcy. Thomas Song of Dine Brands and Aimbridge Hospitality joined as CFO last December. Since then, Cineworld has tapped former Warner Bros. Discovery executive Ben Hill as
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If you’re still shopping at Amazon, check out these spring cleaning discounts. When is Amazon’s Big Spring Sale?  The first Amazon Big Spring Sale runs from March 20 to 25, 2024. Amazon customers can shop deals on beauty products, spring fashion, electronics, home products, and more.  What is on sale during the Amazon Big Spring Sale? Customers can shop deals on seasonal
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Jack Black is totally down for a School Of Rock sequel. More than two decades after the beloved musical comedy, directed by Richard Linklater, premiered in 2003, the actor-comedian recently told JOE that he’s “ready” to reprise his role as energetic musician Dewey Finn. “I wish there’d be a School Of Rock 2 Electric Boogaloo,” he said, referencing the
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Broadway‘s insanely busy spring doesn’t really kick into full gear until next month when 14 new shows have their official openings, but with March as a sort of sign of things to come – five shows have opened or will soon this month – box office was strong last week. In all, the 25 productions
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News Megan Thee Stallion Details Hot Girl Summer Tour Glorilla will open for the Houston rapper on her headlining arena tour By Matthew Strauss March 20, 2024 Facebook X Megan Thee Stallion, photo by Bethany Vargas Facebook X Megan Thee Stallion has announced the Hot Girl Summer Tour. The headlining arena tour begins in May
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Prime Video Road House Jake Gyllenhaal is Dalton, the bouncer who talks softly but wields a mighty fist, in Doug Limon’s turbo-charged remake of the 1989 Patrick Swayze guilty pleasure. “No one ever wins a fight,” Dalton concedes, scraping bottom after a bruising career as a UFC fighter. But when roadhouse owner Frankie (Shrinking’s Jessica
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Susan Sarandon is still waiting to see Hollywood improve its working conditions for women. The actress said on Sunday that she doesn’t feel the industry is yet to reckon with the #MeToo movement’s revelations surrounding Harvey Weinstein. “I don’t think we’ve done the cleanup afterwards that we should be doing,” Sarandon said during a ’90s
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The new documentary Are You a Librarian: The Untold Story of Black Librarians aims to show a new, pioneering perspective on Black librarians, and the great influence they’ve wielded, which reached outside of libraries and into moments like the Civil Rights Movement. Rodney E. Freeman Jr. is the executive producer of the documentary, and a
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Marjane Satrapi’s graphic memoirs Persepolis and Persepolis II—and the Oscar-nominated film adapted from the books—tell the story of the author-illustrator’s coming of age in 1980s Iran. Her new work is concerned with the life of another young Iranian woman, 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who died in police custody after being arrested, detained and severely beaten because
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