I just read this article by Brooke Obie on Shadow and Act that was posted on December 14, 2018. I didn't post it here because it's really long, but if you are wondering what the Green Book controversy is about, you MUST read it....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6-_EysVGlo Wanda Sykes takes a lie detector test. Does she still work for the NSA? Does she think her wife every fake laughs at her jokes? Wanda Sykes is on tour! Upcoming dates include: Punch Line Philadelphia, PA 2/26/2019 Punch Line...
by Shadow and Act Shadow and Act has a special Valentine's Day present for their readers: They put together a video documenting 120 years of #BlackLove. Set to the score of Barry Jenkins' If Beale Street Could Talk by Nicholas Brittell, it starts with 1898's Something...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QOtYPfcSuo "Lego Movie 2: The Second Part" star Tiffany Haddish takes a lie detector test for Vanity Fair. Could Tiffany Haddish tell a joke in Japanese? Does think she could get swindled into joining a cult? What does her dating app...
Mahershala Ali (“Green Book”) and John David Washington (“BlacKkKlansman”) have catapulted into the awards season conversation with two searing films about race in America. Both movies are based on true stories. Ali, who won the supporting actor Oscar in 2017 for...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RD1AWcu6bwI "What Men Want" stars Tracy Morgan and Taraji P. Henson give each other a lie detector test for Vanity Fair. Could Taraji P. Henson have her own sitcom? Does Tracy think New York is better than Washington D.C.? Who would...
by Aramide A. Tinubu | Shadow and Act Time can mean everything and nothing at all depending on your circumstances. For incarcerated people —specifically those on Death row, and prison employees responsible for ending lives, time is all-consuming. In her masterfully...
https://youtube.com/shorts/Q_LIKq60CAA by Essence...
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Melissa McCarthy is best known for creating outsize comedic characters, but this year she took on a dramatic role in “Can You Ever Forgive Me?,” Marielle Heller’s story of a forger desperately holding onto her place in a gentrifying New York. It’s a turn that’s...
by Anita Busch | Deadline Hollywood It was 10 years in the making, but a feature documentary about Sly and The Family Stone and their impact on the development of funk, soul, rock, and psychedelic music is on its way. Dance to the Streaming Music, from Winter State...
by Monique Jones | Shadow and Act It's the end of the year, and it's time to take a look at 2018's best films. This was actually quite a hard list to put together, since there were a ton of great films, ranging from documentaries to foreign films to animated films,...