Sentences with phrase «film about a black man»

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.

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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.

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.

«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.

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!).

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.

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.

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.

The real stars of the film are the supporting cast of stereotypes the dopey Mexican, the thieving black guy and good with computers serious Russian who make sure the film maintains its humor and remembers that ultimately its a film about a man who hangs around with ants.

Indiewire recently sat down with Black, who also co-wrote the screenplay for the film, to talk about how the experience of making «Nice Guys» compared to directing «Iron Man 3» and what to expect from his upcoming project, the remake of 1987's «Predator» (in which Black had a supporting actor role).

Little is known about the role on film, however in comic books Black Manta is a man from the surface world who now lives under the ocean and has sworn revenge on his former home.

Released in the same year (1963) that saw Sidney Poitier become the first black man to win an Oscar in a major category (for Lilies in the Field), Donovan's Reef is a shockingly, unapologetically racist and misogynistic film about braggadocio, therapeutic rape, and belittling the natives.

Previous sequels in this franchise haven't remotely approached the quality of John McTiernan «s 1987 classic, but the main reason we're excited about this one is because it's co-written and directed by Shane Black, the guy behind movies like Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, The Nice Guys, and one of Marvel Studios» very best films, Iron Man 3.

«Get Out» is a comic horror film about the things that happen when a black man goes to his white girlfriend's house for a weekend visit.

Martin McDonagh (pictured above), the award winning Irish playwright behind The Pillowman and the Oscar winning shot film Six Shooter, made his feature film debut in 2008 with In Bruges, an extraordinarily black dramedy about two hit - men (played by Brendan Gleeson and Colin Farrell, the latter of whom picked up a Golden Globe for his efforts) on vacation in the medieval Belgian town of Bruges.

This wasn't lost on its guests, with many marking the new era of awareness by wearing black, inviting activists to the red carpet, or making brutal, barbed comments about the film industry's disgraced men.

So I don't know whether bad word of mouth kicked in afterwards to dampen the film's box office takings, but I was rather reluctant to go see Men in Black II after hearing some very poor things about it.

The writer and director of «Get Out» on Sunday, March 4, won an Oscar for his first film, taking a best original screenplay statue for the sociological thriller about a black man who meets his white girlfriend's family and finds a house of racial horrors.

A black comedy about a man who dreams of being a reality tv contestant, the French / Italian co-production Reality (directed by Matteo Garrone) has attracted rave reviews at a lot of 2012's film festivals, including a Grand Prix win at Cannes, though it's yet to see a wide release in English - speaking territories.

We already had early signs that the Golden Globe nominations would be... shall we say, interesting, when Get Out, Jordan Peele's tremendous horror film about being a black man in America, was inexplicably classified in the Comedy category.

An odd combination of Ghostbusters and Men in Black, the film struck a comedic tone, which meant despite being about ghosts, there wasn't a single fright in the whole film.

(Tellingly, Creed's one major nomination was for Sylvester Stallone, the white supporting player in a film about a young black man.)

After the usual rigamarole about shooting challenges and directorial perfectionism, someone asked Zhang Yimou what he thought the film was about, which he either answered honestly or deftly dodged by asserting that what he wanted people to take from the film, long after they've forgotten the plot, are the memories of certain images: two women in red fighting among swirling yellow leaves, two sorrowful men flying and dueling on a lake as still as a mirror, a sky of black arrows, a desert moonscape haunted by lonely figures in white.

Other films featuring gay interracial romance include «Chutney Popcorn,» about an Indian - American lesbian surrogate mother and her white girlfriend; «The Wedding Banquet,» about a closeted Chinese man involved with a white American man; and «Brother to Brother,» a Harlem Renaissance drama featuring a young black man and his white male lover.

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.

A fictionalized account of the last day of Oscar Grant III's life, the film opens with one of the real life cell - phone clips that captured the 22 - year - old Black man — lying on his stomach, about to be handcuffed — being shot in the back by BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) policeman Johannes Mehserle at the Fruitvale stop in Oakland.

A number of films touching on controversial subjects during the past year also made the cut including The Hunting Ground, about campus rape; 3 1/2 Minutes, 10 Bullets, about the shooting of an unarmed black teenager by a white man in Florida; Going Clear: Scientology And The Prison Of Belief, an in - depth look at the Church of Scientology; Winter On Fire: Ukraine's Fight For Freedom, which chronicles the unrest in the Eastern European country; and He Named Me Malala, about the young girl who survived being shot in the head by the Taliban for being outspoken about her country's education system.

Finally, we're getting new details about the upcoming Men in Black film with Thor: Ragnarok costars Tessa Thompson and Chris Hemsworth, which will see them solving a global murder mystery.

Three Billboards got something very right about women's rage, but it also got something very wrong about race — no small matter for a film set in Missouri in 2017 that features an openly racist cop who dances around the n - word and has tortured a black man in police custody.

10:00 pm — TCM — Cabin in the Sky One of the more watchable / interesting films of the black - cast - centric films that Hollywood did in the 1940s, probably because it's also Vincente Minnelli's first directorial effort, a musical fantasy about the battle over a man's soul.

If «Moonlight,» an indie film about a gay black man growing up in impoverished Miami, a movie made for $ 1.5 million, could win best picture, then why not «Get Out,» a social thriller examining race?

I think Black Panther and Spider - Man we're outstanding in their MCU debuts and their strong performances should leave many movie goers excited about their upcoming solo films.

THE MAN WHO WAS N'T THERE (Grade: B): The new film from the Coen Brothers is a slow - paced, straight - faced, black - and - white film noir about a small - town barber of the»50s (Billy Bob Thornton) who becomes snared in a web of blackmail and murder.

In preparing the film, Coogler said he realized that the story of «Black Panther» — about a young man ascending to a family throne — bore many similarities to «The Godfather.»

One of the best things about Ryan Coogler taking on Black Panther is that he brought along his favored leading man, Michael B. Jordan, to play the villain of the film, Erik Killmonger.

Moonlight, about the three stages of the life a queer, black boy to teenager to man, is the second film from Jenkins and this week was nominated for eight Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Supporting Actor (Ali).

What do you get when you take what is probably the greatest baseball film ever made («Eight Men Out»), a magical Irish fairytale («The Secret of Roan Inish»), a strange science fiction film about a mute, black alien who lands in Harlem («The Brother from Another Planet») and one of the best mystery / suspense films in recent years («Lone Star»)?

It was 7:30 in the morning on March 18, 2003 when I talked with Solomon about his film, but the early hour didn't put a a dent in Solomon's thoughtful introspection about his characters, the realities of filmmaking on a budget, or in his quick wit, the one that propelled his script for MEN IN BLACK I.

«Pass Over» is a filmed stage production about «two young black men talking...

When most people think of Johnny Cash, they think of a gruff man dressed in black that sang about prison life and hard knocks, but after seeing the film, he s transformed into a man of great passion, both for music and for his woman.

Men in Black is one of those rare film franchises where the idea of a full - on reboot doesn't sound like an entirely bad idea when you really think about it.

On this episode, the GeekScholars host a spoiler - free discussion and review of Get Out, one of 2017's most - buzzed about horror films (and rightfully so, it's fantastic) about a young black man who goes to meet his white girlfriend's family and the unusual encounters and events that occur.

Q: The film is very much about taking sides: white against black, husband against wife, parent against child, cop against citizen, Man railing against God.

Key and Peele alum Jordan Peele has described his directorial debut, Get Out, as a straight horror film about «the fears of being a black man today» — and boy, he wasn't kidding.

Black Panther is expected to earn about $ 150 million at the domestic box office on its opening weekend, which would be he fifth - highest debut in the MCU, behind only Captain America: Civil War, Iron Man 3 and both Avengers films.

After Spider - Man: Homecoming, Black Panther will be only the second movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe franchise that is a debut solo film about a previously established character in the continuity.

This speaks, of course, of larger industry problems, of issues of funding and distribution, of what stories get made and marketed to larger audiences, of which films get studio backing, which stars get cast, etc. but it nevertheless seemed rather telling that stories of young black men and cross-cultural relationships, and foreign films about burgeoning and belated sexual awakenings end up ghettoized this way.

Looking for Langston is an expressive film about gay black men living in Harlem in the 1920s.

Highlights include Neshat's moving film, Rapture, 1999, a two - screen, black - and - white video projection in which an allegorical narrative about the stark divide between Muslim men and women plays out on opposing walls.