Sentences with phrase «film about a black»

The 2009 biographical film about a black high school student adopted by a white Christian family is rated PG - 13 and became something of an evangelical darling when it released, receiving endorsements from Christianity Today and Focus on the Family.

A big - budgeted studio film about a black action superhero with a nearly all - black cast is a huge step forward.

With the dominance of superhero films in the past decade, it was also quite different in the mid-90's, as Hollywood star Wesley Snipes, who was in a wave of box - office hits that skyrocketed him to superstardom, took a bold initiative to make a film about the Black Panther, which was supposed to release many years ago.

Once Quentin Tarantino latches on to something, he can't let it go: following three films about black - suited criminals and two about yellow - suited samurai, he's now moved into his Western phase, chasing «Django Unchained» with another hard - bitten tale of frontier violence.

Roger Ebert praised Kasi Lemmons» directorial debut, a period film about a black Louisiana family in crisis due to the father's infidelity and the daughter's psychic abilities.

The organization honors excellence in cinema by creating awareness for films with universal appeal to black communities, while emphasizing film about the black experience and those produced, written, directed and starring performers of African descent.

There was consideration given to making a film about Black Panther as early as 1992, but plans didn't come to fruition until 2010 when an animated TV miniseries voiced by the likes of Djimon Hounsou, Jill Scott, Carl Lumbly, Kerry Washington, and Alfre Woodard.

In a recent profile with The New York Times, Jason Blum — the producer behind Get Out, Jordan Peele's massively popular 2017 thriller about a young black man who faces a terrifying form of racism in a predominantly white suburb — announced that one of his followup projects will be a horror film about black lesbians living in the «burbs, directed by Dee Rees.

In a Hollywood cinema landscape that still mostly revolves around white hegemony, Ryan Coogler's Creed was a huge breath of fresh air, a motivational, moving film about a black man that didn't involve poverty or gangs.

It's rare for the film about the black experience, made by black filmmakers, to break into in the conversation at all, and when they do, the standards are always ridiculously high.

To that end, Black Panther shouldn't be read as a film about a black superhero, but rather a black film about a superhero.

Dealing with themes of solidarity among the working class, The Wizard of Oz isn't a film about the black experience, but with just a little tinkering, it easily could be.

Harris» award - winning experimental films include a look at a post-industrial urban landscape, an optically printed and hand - processed film about Black outlaws, a pinhole film about the cosmic consequences of the sun's collapse, a macro lens close up of a child's nightlight, and a double projection film about a theme park performance of Christ's Passion.

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When Philando Castile was shot by police during a routine roadside stop in Minneapolis, and his death was filmed by his girlfriend Lavish Reynolds as her daughter sat in the back seat, the footage helped galvanize protests about police violence against blacks in the U.S.

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.

EASTWOOD: Well that was an interesting project because Steven had asked me to do Flags of Our Fathers and so I was having a meeting with him and we were talking about that war and that battle and I was going off into Iceland to film the beaches because Iceland has black sand much like Iwo Jima does.

Last week, Variety reported that Black Panther had already become the world's most tweeted - about movie of 2018, so far, generating more than five million tweets related to the film.

I wanted to know if the black churchgoing community that make up his strongest fan base — for Perry's films are all rooted deeply in Christian themes and values — are likely to give him a backlash over the amount of marijuana use and comments about the drug in the new film.

For whatever people think about the film, whether they love it or hate it, it is the vision of a black storyteller undiluted.

I bumped into a few familiar friendly faces such as Pamela (who is filming a documentary about black vegans in SA at the moment), Dylan and Jo from Vegan Review and SA Vegan Society, Kirtanya from SMILE UCT and Adien from Plant.

The report has been released within weeks of the ugly incidents in Paris where a group of Chelsea fans were filmed chanting about being racists, whilst also preventing a black man from boarding the metro, ahead of their Champions League tie with Paris Saint - Germain.

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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.

We're gonna need a minute to process this whole situation... Okay, now we're ready to talk about the purple - and - black - and - teal lace caped gown, which shows a lot of leg and a even more side cleavage at the opening ceremony of the film festival.

I am a thick black woman, crazy about film and fashion.

All the crazy truth about auditioning and working in indie no budget films and black box theaters in NYC.

Cast / credits plus additional information about the film One of the world's greatest spies and master of disguise, she's the legendary scarlet - haired NATASHA ROMANOVA, the BLACK WIDOW!

Keira Knightley has joined the chorus of condemnation which has greeted the numerous revelations about Harvey Weinstein, the man behind two of her own film Keira Knightley, Actress: Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl.

Preaching to the Choir seeds adequately in the very fertile genre of black films about redemption, but don't expect performances on the level of last year's Diary of a Mad Black Woman or The Preacher's black films about redemption, but don't expect performances on the level of last year's Diary of a Mad Black Woman or The Preacher's Black Woman or The Preacher's Wife.

«Guess Who» is a dry comedy, a remake of the classic «Guess Who's Coming to Dinner» (1967), only this time, it has a race role reversal, where the original film was about a white family meeting a black man, this film centers around a black family meeting a white man.

Commentary 3 — The Picture - Director of Photography Darius Khondji, Prodcution Designer Arthur Max, Editor Richard Francis - Bruce, Richard Dyer and David Fincher talk about the look of the film itself, the color processes used on the print, the locations scouted for the various shots, the detail used in the studio backlot constructions, the style David wanted to achieve and succeeded in doing, the clothing, the grittiness, the absolute black Fincher always wanted in Alien 3 but could achieve until now and more.

Another well made true factual sporting film about an all star black American football star in the 50's / 60's when racism was a very hot cookie in the States.

The basics have been well - publicized: The film, shot in black and white, is about a German Nazi who took over a factory in Poland during World War II and talked his powerful acquaintances into allowing him to use cheap labor, in the form of Jewish workers.

To Sam (Tessa Thompson), the militant black DJ who hosts the hot - button show that gives the film its title, the president scolds, «I think you long for the days when blacks were hanging from trees so you'd have something to complain about,» before dubbing her the school's most intolerant figure.

So when The Hunger Games or Wonder Woman or Black Panther becomes an enormous hit, everybody is utterly shocked (except for those of us who've been clamoring for those films since childhood), and the entertainment journalists write articles about this surprising new development, and explain why it may never happen again.

Two years later, he could be seen in another high - profile, politically tinged thriller, this time opposite Denzel Washington in director Jonathan Demme's remake of The Manchurian Candidate.In 2005 he made his directorial and screenwriting debut with Everything Is Illuminated, and appeared in the critically acclaimed, Golden Globe - winning HBO movie Lackawanna Blues, a life - affirming film about a selfless black woman (played by S. Epatha Merkerson) in 1950s segregated New York who provides a home and a guiding hand to the youths who come to live at her boarding house.

Wenders» choice to pepper the film with stories about Pope Francis» namesake, the venerated Saint Francis of Assisi, already feels off - kilter for such a present - focused feature, and get weirder still when they turn into flickering, black and white recreations of the saint's journey to God.

It is also The Void that creates Michael B. Jordan's Erik Killmonger, the antagonist of Black Panther, cousin to Chadwick Boseman's protagonist King T'Challa and a comic - book villain so transcendent that he is almost out of place in a film about a superhero who dresses as a cat.

The fault of the film is that Beatty can't gracefully pull off what he is trying to accomplish without appearing to be smug about it, like he's the white man who knows best what to do and that anything he does is super cool because he really cares about the blacks and the poor (sic!).

A handful of the Marvel movies have been quite good but «Black Panther» is the first one that feels like a passion project; it can be felt in just about every moment of the film.

She just completed the independent digital short film, Black Water, about a successful middle - aged man whose life falls apart, which has been invited to the Hawaii Film Festival upon completion.

Unsurprisingly, Persepolis has attracted the wrath of the Iranian government, but more captivating than the film's depictions of cultural repression (a scene where Marji, out to buy a black market Iron Maiden album, is beset by weasel - bodied female Guardians of the Revolution because she wears a jean jacket and «punk» sneakers is but one well - handled example) are its more understated portraits of Iran's intellectual elite, at once removed from the proletariat it so pompously champions and sadly delusional about the real threat of the fanatic trajectory of the revolution.

Regardless of whether anybody believes that about Tarantino's previous films or not, it is difficult to accuse him of misusing the word in Django Unchained where it is directly tied to the calculated way that black people were viewed as sub-human, even to the extent that some of them believed it themselves.

The biggest surprise for Miike fans and musical lovers alike is that for all the black humor of this deliriously bizarre fantasy «Happiness» is a warmhearted film about sacrifice, support and four generations of family togetherness.

We all wanted to love this film but the fact that it is about an African superhero and has an almost all black cast does not turn it from a mediocre production to an outstanding one.

Jack and Rob will both be on hand to talk about the film and discuss Black's turn as the legendary author himself, R.L. Stine.

It's been nearly a decade since release of the last film in the Predator franchise — Predators, starring Adrien Brody and Alice Braga — but that's about to change with The Predator, a revival from The Other Guys and Iron Man 3 director Shane Black.

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

@starlit, I never thought of this before, but Civil War should probably have just been an Avengers film, and Cap 3 should have solely been about clearing the Winter Soldier's name featuring Black Panther and Helmut Zemo.

Silver Linings Playbook was also up for quite a few gold men at last year's Oscars, including Best Picture, but winning Best Feature at the Independent Spirit Awards is a more fitting accolade for this black sheep film about, well, black sheep.