Sentences with phrase «black cast as»

Essentially a variation on Home Alone set in an airport, the movie finds Black cast as a grouchy airport employee with little tolerance for precocious pre-teens.

Audiences too have high praise for film's direction, visuals, performances, its unapologetic and positive depiction of African cultures, and its predominantly black cast as it suited a film about a fictional African country.

Not exact matches

«Serena is Black, which carries the historical baggage of being invariably «othered,» hyper - sexualized, masculinized, demonized as «angry» or cast as unappealing to the mainstream.»

While Black Panther rode a huge wave of critical acclaim and fan excitement to the biggest opening weekend ever for the month of February (and the fifth - largest of all - time), raking in more than $ 426 million worldwide, a small number of Internet trolls still did what they could to dampen the good vibes surrounding the trailblazing film, which features Marvel's first African - American director (Ryan Coogler) and a cast led by black actors such as Chadwick Boseman and Lupita Nyong» o. Starting last week, in the first few days of Black Panther «s highly - anticipated theatrical release, some Twitter accounts started trying to spread false accounts of attacks at screenings of the mBlack Panther rode a huge wave of critical acclaim and fan excitement to the biggest opening weekend ever for the month of February (and the fifth - largest of all - time), raking in more than $ 426 million worldwide, a small number of Internet trolls still did what they could to dampen the good vibes surrounding the trailblazing film, which features Marvel's first African - American director (Ryan Coogler) and a cast led by black actors such as Chadwick Boseman and Lupita Nyong» o. Starting last week, in the first few days of Black Panther «s highly - anticipated theatrical release, some Twitter accounts started trying to spread false accounts of attacks at screenings of the mblack actors such as Chadwick Boseman and Lupita Nyong» o. Starting last week, in the first few days of Black Panther «s highly - anticipated theatrical release, some Twitter accounts started trying to spread false accounts of attacks at screenings of the mBlack Panther «s highly - anticipated theatrical release, some Twitter accounts started trying to spread false accounts of attacks at screenings of the movie.

I remember how powerful I felt as a woman after watching Wonder Woman, and I know the feeling will only be magnified after seeing the predominately black cast in Marvel's portrayal of this superhero and his entourage.

Set mostly in the fictional African nation of Wakanda, the film boasts a director and primary star who are both African - American men (director Ryan Coogler and actor Chadwick Boseman), while the cast also features numerous other notable black stars, such as Oscar winners Lupita Nyong» o and Forest Whitaker as well as Angela Bassett and Michael B. Jordan.

I looked when He broke the sixth seal, and there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth made of hair, and the whole moon became like blood; and the stars of the sky fell to the earth, as a fig tree casts its unripe figs when shaken by a great wind.

She cast two of the three supernatural figures who guide Meg on her quest as women of color (Oprah Winfrey and Mindy Kaling), and cast a little - known black actress named Storm Reid as Meg herself.

In the first three months of this year alone: Son of Man, which casts a black man as Christ and sets his life in modern South Africa, got positive reviews at Sundance; the makers of Color of the Cross, which also casts a black man as Christ, established a website with trailers for their work - in - progress; and New Line Cinema announced that Oscar nominees Keisha Castle - Hughes (Whale Rider) and Shohreh Aghdashloo (House of Sand and Fog) will star as the Virgin Mary and her cousin Elizabeth in a new movie about the Nativity, to be released in time for Christmas.

It is however NOT nonsense to find it deplorable for these two producers to cast a black man as Satan in 2013.

Black and minority ethnic actors play the roles of the Founding Fathers, a casting decision that turns audience expectations upside down as soon as the musical starts.

It was this simple: my go - to pizza dough, baked it in a cast - iron skillet (12 inches so it fits), mozzarella layered on the bottom (as is traditional), then the toppings (roasted vegetables, spinach, Italian turkey sausage, and black olives) and the sauce, finished with freshly grated Parmesan.

They saw racial politics, as Iola McGowan, a member of the old anti-Washington park board, was jeered by fellow blacks when she cast a vote favoring Kelly, who has placed white males in almost all the important posts in the park district bureaucracy.

But Hon. Isaac Adongo cast aspersions on the deal as he said Black Star is linked to a Finance Minister Ken Ofori Atta's Deputy at the Finance Ministry.

For example, the Israeli West Bank Barrier is called Geder Ha «hafrada, it means separation fence; and separation as a word is synonymous with segregation and this usefully points to another historical situation that casts some light here: the racist segregation policies of the USA concerning their black minority, particularly in the Deep South before they began to be dismantled during the era of the Civil Rights struggle under the leadership of Dr. Martin Luthor King.

But she cast the issue mostly as a racial disparity one, saying the vast majority of people arrested for marijuana are blacks or Latinos.

As the stellar pairs flew past the black hole, one star was captured and the other was cast outwards at high speed.

As for why they weren't all black, Sato says that the black and white colors of today's penguins help camouflage them by reducing shadows cast on their bodies.

The shadow cast by an object such as a tree could, in theory, be pitch black if there were a single distant light source, without scattering or reflections.

The team led by three principal investigators, Heino Falcke, Radboud University Nijmegen, Michael Kramer, Max - Planck - Institut für Radioastronomie, and Luciano Rezzolla, Goethe University in Frankfurt and Max - Planck - Institut für Gravitationsphysik, Potsdam, hopes to measure the shadow cast by the event horizon of the black hole in the center of the Milky Way, find new radiopulsars near this black hole, and combine these measurements with advanced computer simulations of the behaviour of light and matter around black holes as predicted by theories of gravity.

This is the perfect necklace for the little black dress as well as casual t - shirt and jeans: 14k gold plated collar necklace has 3/4» round castings and a center stone hand...

The nude illusion is cast perfectly as a backdrop to the delicate black beaded design of draped netting falling sensually around the actress.

She claims that having an Asian model or black model walk down the runway to just have them there can often receive the same backlash as white - washing the cast.

Monochrome casts off its Sixties connotations for good, as designers play with all manner of decorative devices to give black and white a fresh, modern makeover.

Despite an interesting premise and excellent cast, the film flopped, but Arquette continued to work steadily the following year, with lead roles in the black comedy Goodbye Lover; Stigmata, in which she starred opposite Gabriel Byrne as the unwitting target of a supernatural phenomenon; and Martin Scorsese's Bringing out the Dead, a film starring Arquette's then - husband Cage as a burnt - out paramedic.Following the weightiness of the creepy Stigmata and the disturbing Bringing Out the Dead, Arquette took things in a decidedly lighter direction with her next two projects.

Djimon Hounsou is wasted, as he always is, cast as the tough black guy with the accent.

This casting choice seems another sort of updating, as there were no black faces in the first film's unnamed midwestern town, and it's a choice amplified by the appearance as well of Andy's son Woody (Ser «Darius Blain) as the football team captain, his barely speaking girlfriend Etta (Enisha Brewster), and their vibrant Latina classmate Rusty (Ziah Colon).

Jordenö casts her subjects — gay black and brown teens who find freedom in dance and drag — in warm reds and oranges, giving each individual their moment by fixing on their faces as they make direct eye contact with her camera.

It's nice that the film sympathizes with the victims of segregation and oppression, but by casting them as outsiders it is perpetuating the myth of the black African as «other» - when in fact it is was the Europeans who were the natural «others» in South Africa.

That alone would be reason to get excited, and Coogler makes good on the landmark project's potential by featuring a predominantly black ensemble, casting some of the best young actors around — from Chadwick Boseman (who proved his dramatic chops playing James Brown, Jackie Robinson, and Thurgood Marshall in recent years) to Michael B. Jordan (even more buff, and twice as charismatic, than he appeared in the director's two previous features, «Fruitvale Station» and «Creed»)-- as well as such legends as Forest Whitaker and Angela Bassett.

Apart from Padilha, 7 Days in Entebbe has promising credentials: a strong cast headed by Daniel Brühl and Rosamund Pike as the German radicals who prove out of their depth running the hijack mission with two Palestinians, and a script by Black Watch playwright Gregory Burke, who also scored a notable Berlin hit in 2014 as writer of the super-tense Northern Ireland drama» 71.

But the show - stealer has to be the golden - haired, «Black Mirror» alum Jesse Plemons, here as Max and Annie's police officer who has been casted out of game nights because of an unfortunate resemblance to Hannibal Lecter, personality-wise, a cute Westie by his side or not.

And there's a hidden triumph in the supporting cast from the always - reliable character actor Bill Camp (Black Mass, Midnight Special), whose spectacular, hideously convincing wipe - out as a guy called Harlan Eustice, in the course of a single night, sets much of the plot in motion.

He also dismissed the idea that a movie with a black cast wouldn't hit as big in important overseas markets.

Black Panther may not be the first superhero film to place a black lead front and centre — Wesley Snipes made two great Blade movies plus another one, and the»90s delivered a handful of now - forgotten fare with black men behind the mask (Spawn, Steel, Blankman, The Meteor Man)-- but it is the first to surround its hero with an equally diverse cast, and announce itself as the new blockbuster status - quo, not a one - off alternative for a widely underrepresented audiBlack Panther may not be the first superhero film to place a black lead front and centre — Wesley Snipes made two great Blade movies plus another one, and the»90s delivered a handful of now - forgotten fare with black men behind the mask (Spawn, Steel, Blankman, The Meteor Man)-- but it is the first to surround its hero with an equally diverse cast, and announce itself as the new blockbuster status - quo, not a one - off alternative for a widely underrepresented audiblack lead front and centre — Wesley Snipes made two great Blade movies plus another one, and the»90s delivered a handful of now - forgotten fare with black men behind the mask (Spawn, Steel, Blankman, The Meteor Man)-- but it is the first to surround its hero with an equally diverse cast, and announce itself as the new blockbuster status - quo, not a one - off alternative for a widely underrepresented audiblack men behind the mask (Spawn, Steel, Blankman, The Meteor Man)-- but it is the first to surround its hero with an equally diverse cast, and announce itself as the new blockbuster status - quo, not a one - off alternative for a widely underrepresented audience.

He changed the ethnicity of the lead female character in Leonard's novel from the white Jackie Burke to a black Jackie Brown which allowed him to cast Pam Grier and reference her blaxploitation films «Foxy Brown» and «Coffy» as well as, employing the use of Bobby Womack's «Across 110th Street».

Although the show was eventually cancelled, the actress continued to appear in a number of TV series and independent films, including Hartley's Flirt (1995), Susan Streitfeld's Female Perversions (1996), which cast her as Tilda Swinton's psychiatrist lover, and Sour Grapes (1998), a black comedy which featured her as the girlfriend of a greedy neurologist.

They cast it off as a mean - spirited «black

Cast: Jack Black as Po (voice) Angelina Jolie as Tigress (voice) Gary Oldman as Lord Shen (voice) Seth Rogen as Mantis (voice) Jean - Claude Van Damme as Master Croc (voice) Jackie Chan as Monkey (voice) Dustin Hoffman as Shifu (voice) David Cross as Crane (voice) Lucy Liu as Viper (voice) Michelle Yeoh as The Soothsayer (voice) Dennis Haysbert as Master Oxen (voice) Victor Garber as Master Thundering Rhino (voice) James Hong as Mr. Ping (voice)

Floyd's commitment to «Angry Black» wavers after learning Sadie's new boyfriend has been cast as his co-star.

Let's face it: Jack Black is perfectly cast as the portly, animated panda Po, the Dragon Warrior who keeps the peace in Valley of Peace with the help of his comrades, the Furious Five.

As the red carpet in South Africa swirled with stunning outfits and exclamations in the local isiXhosa language used in Black Panther's Wakanda kingdom, cast member John Kani laughed at the US president's views.

Black Film reports Paula Patton has been cast as a «villain» in the Stephanie Meyer - produced adaptation of Daniel O'Malley's novel about a young amnesiac woman being hunted by supernatural forces at Starz.

The Dark Tower is set for release on August 4th, and sees Nikolaj Arcel (A Royal Affair) directing a cast that includes Idris Elba (Luther) as Roland Deschain, Matthew McConaughey (Interstellar) as the Man in Black, Tom Taylor (Doctor Foster) as Jake Chambers, Abbey Lee (Mad Max: Fury Road) as Tirana, Fran Kranz (The Cabin in the Woods) as Pimli, Jackie Earle Haley (Watchmen) as Richard Sayre, Michael Barbieri (Little Men) as Timmy, Claudia Kim (Avengers: Age of Ultron) as Arra Champignon and Katheryn Winnick (Vikings) as Laurie Chambers.

He didn't exactly choose an easy project for a first film, as black comedy is a very difficult style of film to pull off, and with a cast of very seasoned actors to have to tell precisely what to do, Guthe very well could have lost control and focus on the project and turned in a disaster.

Adding to the celebrity - laden cast is Neal McDonough -LRB-» Justified»,» Desperate Housewives») as Deadshot, Troy Baker -LRB-» The Last of Us») as Joker, Matthew Gray Gubler -LRB-» Criminal Minds») as Riddler, CCH Pounder -LRB-» The Shield»,» Warehouse 13») as Amanda Waller, Greg Ellis -LRB-» 24») as Captain Boomerang, and Giancarlo Esposito -LRB-» Breaking Bad»,» Revolution») as Black Spider.

Aside from Thornton, the cast includes Lucas Black as team quarter - back Mike Winchell, Garrett Hedlund as troubled runner Don Billingsley, and Derek Luke as star man Boobie Miles who — despite the daft name — fancies himself a bit.

That's the sort of action that many teen movies would depict as a flight of fancy, a burst of quickly forgotten surrealism meant to illustrate an impulsive teenage mind; Christine spends the rest of Lady Bird sporting a fluorescent pink cast with the words «Fuck you mom» scrawled on it in black sharpie.

With Denzel dressed as a man in black along with a cast that included Chris Pratt, Ethan Hawke, Vincent D'Onofrio, Lee Byung - hun, Haley Bennett, Martin Sensmeier, Manuel Garcia - Rulfo, and a frustratingly villainous Peter Skarsgard for good measure.

A casting call for «Iron Man 3,» which will get underway this summer, written by fast - rising screenwriter Drew Pearce and directed by «Kiss Kiss Bang Bang» helmer Shane Black, has been obtained via Feature Film Casting (via Latino Review), and it reveals that Johansson will be back on duty as the flexible Natasha Romanoff in the necasting call for «Iron Man 3,» which will get underway this summer, written by fast - rising screenwriter Drew Pearce and directed by «Kiss Kiss Bang Bang» helmer Shane Black, has been obtained via Feature Film Casting (via Latino Review), and it reveals that Johansson will be back on duty as the flexible Natasha Romanoff in the neCasting (via Latino Review), and it reveals that Johansson will be back on duty as the flexible Natasha Romanoff in the new film.