Sentences with phrase «about black characters»

I was hoping Nicola Yoon's well - earned success would spur the support of more romance - driven novels by and about black characters, and yet I'm having trouble thinking of some that have been pushed in the last couple of years.

Having said that, we are getting nominations into indieBRAG from Black authors writing about Black characters.

Out of 203 B.R.A.G.Medallion Honorees, 6 are by black authors or about black characters.

I've read, researched, interviewed, and written about black characters in comics over the years; I'm deeply invested in comic book fandom, but the comic book industry rarely seemed invested in me.

Not exact matches

So to hear Rae talk about standing up to a room full of network execs, her new bosses, and fight for two insecure black characters who have messy lives and are fully realized as complex characters?

Much like the success of last year's Warner Bros. film Wonder Woman helped change the conversation around a female superhero movie helmed by a woman director, a box - office smashing debut for Black Panther could pave the way for a similar paradigm shift in Hollywood with regard to how studios approach big - budget stories about characters of color.

What it's about: Finally, the characters in the Marvel Cinematic Universe came together in «The Avengers,» with Iron Man, Thor, Hulk, Captain America, and Black Widow fighting off Loki and his alien army.

McDormand, Rockwell, and Woody Harrelson are so good in Three Billboards that I think a lot of voters have totally forgotten the less successful aspects of the movie: How every white character is immensely colorful but every black one is a cipher, that whole thing about Woody Harrelson's big dick (stop!

Talk about the black need for character is fine, but acting on the moral obligation that whites owe to blacks is part of his character.

His message that skin color is as nothing compared with content of character was both an affirmation of equality for blacks and an olive branch to whites worried about the possibility of reverse racism.

Before school even started my anxiety about having to prepare a delicious lunch that my kid would actually eat led me down a Pinterest black hole in which I found myself pinning images of flower - shaped lunch meats and bananas sculpted to look like characters from Frozen.

After watching clips in which black characters were treated less favorably than whites, the viewers» conscious attitudes about race did not change.

Wearing this black rose print dress at the Titanic Hotel in Liverpool seemed appropriate, given that Rose was the main character in the film about the ill - fated ship.

I bet my right boob these same characters have nothing to say about black men dating out.

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«Coco,» which has the twists and turns of the kind of black - and - white melodramas Ernesto starred in, is in some respects as old - fashioned a story as they come about the close bonds of family; the many zestily - drawn characters speak entertainingly to the push and pull of tradition within that bubble and across generations.

Everyone is raving about Black Panther «s cast of bad - ass female characters.

Black Panther actor Lupita Nyong» o spoke about her character and said, «I think what makes her unique is she has a very quiet sense of power.»

Now that he's made films about all - white characters, now he can make an all - black and Arab story.»

We conducted this interview before the Black Panther marketing train even began, so we knew very little about her character.

You have characters like — these guys get off the ship and you got the Guardians in this film — are there any you think she has a particular relationship with that are not in the Black Panther movie that you're excited about?

Furthermore, he also talked about the possibility of seeing certain characters from Black Panther go on their own adventures.

mmm... a protagonist who complete dominates a long film to the detriment of context and the other players in the story (though the abolitionist, limping senator with the black lover does gets close to stealing the show, and is rather more interesting than the hammily - acted Lincoln); Day - Lewis acts like he's focused on getting an Oscar rather than bringing a human being to life - Lincoln as portrayed is a strangely zombie character, an intelligent, articulate zombie, but still a zombie; I greatly appreciate Spielberg's attempt to deal with political process and I appreciate the lack of «action» but somehow the context is missing and after seeing the film I know some more facts but very little about what makes these politicians tick; and the lighting is way too stylised, beautiful but unremittingly unreal, so the film falls between the stools of docufiction and costume drama, with costume drama winning out; and the second subject of the film - slavery - is almost complete absent (unlike Django Unchained) except as a verbal abstraction

Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

Most of these characters hold different opinions about the role of a king (or, in the case of M'Baku, T'Challa's fitness for the throne), which turns Black Panther into a running conversation.

Well, I'm not too familiar with the Iron Man comics, so when people started talking about characters like Whiplash and Black Widow entering the mix, it meant absolutely nothing to me.

In a recent interview with Rolling Stone, which covered everything from working with a green screen to putting more black people in science fiction, Tessa Thompson talked about the development of her character Valkyrie in Thor: Ragnarok — and one key moment that got left on the cutting room floor.

Chadwick Boseman opens up about his acting process and how he got into character for Black Panther.

Morton talks about why they went with black and white (essentially, the Vita screen is awesome and really makes it pop), briefly looks at how the touch screen factors into gameplay, and discusses how the two characters operate in terms of the game's puzzles.

A decade ago, a character like her would've sprouted a garden of think pieces and handwringing about the long history of representation of black women as loud, no - nonsense, and mean, the fictional equivalent to the Tiffany Pollards and NeNe Leakes of the reality TV world.

If you saw the character posters for Marvel's Black Panther, you might notice something very familiar about the new image from the movie.

And with General Okoye fast becoming a fan - favorite character in both Black Panther and her brief appearance in Avengers: Infinity War, it would be great to see her take on the lead role in film about the Dora Milaje.

Yes it would be awesome, do nt know to much about the Black Panther but it would be great to see adapted into a live action movie, he was amazing in Blood Diamond and would love to see him as the lead character.

From Terry's obsession with the latest technology to the inevitable conversation at the Thanksgiving table about the benefits of shopping on Black Friday, the story captures some of the everyday personality traits of its characters.

Juliana Harkavy opens up about her experience bringing a classic DC Comics character top life on Arrow, her Black Canary goals and more.

While I came into this movie excited about every inch of it, M'Baku a.k.a Man - Ape in the comics has had a very messy and problematic history being written as the scary, angry, dark - skinned black man who wants Wakanda to be a primitive society that includes human sacrifice, because... this character was created by white authors in the late 1960s, and this was their idea of nuance.

The Help, written and directed by Tate Taylor from the novel by Kathryn Stockett, belongs to the Driving Miss Daisy tradition of feel - good fables about black - white relations in America, movies in which institutional racism takes a backseat to the personal enlightenment of one white character.

Sharon Carter (aka Agent 13) will bolster the film's roster of S.H.I.E.L.D. agents, adding more credence to an old theory of ours that Captain America 2 would not only explore more of the history of Steve Rogers, but would mesh many elements from the oft - talked about S.H.I.E.L.D. film where characters including Black Widow and Nick Fury could have their backstory explored as well.

About Photo # 4056278: Captain America, Black Widow, Iron Man, Thor, and Scarlett Witch are front and center in the brand new character posters for Avengers: Infinity War!

Over the course of a couple of phone chats — one interrupted by a dead cell phone battery — one can hear the earnest joy in her voice, usually followed by that laughter, when talking about her journey from M. Night Shyamalan's The Village, her feature film debut, to the massive success of Jurassic World despite her character's penchant for running in heels from dinosaurs and, most recently, her 2017 Screen Actors Guild Award - nominated performance in an episode of Netflix's Black Mirror.

It is long overdue, and while Marvel has given us some memorable female characters along the way — notably Peggy Carter and Black Widow, mostly thanks to Joss Whedon — it's about time the studio dove headfirst in an honest - to - goodness female - led superhero movie.

Brief character descriptions on the movie's official Facebook page fill in some of the blanks about Moira McTaggert, Mystique and the mysterious Man in Black, and reveal a link between Sebastian Shaw and Erik Lensherr.

The highly anticipated first trailer for Shane Black «s 20th Century Fox flick The Predator dropped this morning, giving us our first look at the title character and the humans who are about to become his prey.

Coming after the game's trophies and final boss form news, the latest lengthy but questionable leak from Reddit was correct about five of the characters, except for Black Widow.

There's nothing new about Frances Ha; the plot's been done, the main character is a familiar type, and even Baumbach's use of black - and - white just makes Gerwig's New York look like a vintage Woody Allen film.

The house itself is a character, speaking with sputters of blood - red mud, the buzz of butterfly - eating black moths, trails of encroaching black mold, and howls of cruel, cold wind that throws snow about the interior with disdain.

Black Panther is about to blow up in a big way when millions of people see him in Captain America: Civil War this weekend, and new fans of T'Challa have an outstanding introduction to the comic - book version of his character in the new Black Panther ongoing series.

Still, examining the way black characters are portrayed in comics can reveal a lot about our society's views on race.

A deleted scene from Black Panther has hit the web, and it confirms details about a relationship between two of the film's most intriguing characters.

A black widow blonde bombshell, Phyllis Dietrichson is a cynical sexy beast and Stanwyck, brilliant in the iconic role, had her reservations about portraying so stark a character.