Sentences with phrase «from black characters»

An agent's claim that Andrea's detective wasn't believable because she didn't use street slang shows what white readers expect from black characters.

Not exact matches

It's evident from the trailers that there's a huge battle in Wakanda, and that a majority (if not all) of the Avengers go there to fight along with our favorite characters from «Black Panther.»

It's what all of those movies over the past 10 years have been building toward, and it features over 20 main characters, from Iron Man to Black Panther, Vision to Groot.

The most recent playset for Captain America: Civil War, for example, not only focuses on new characters like Black Panther and Vision, but includes support for Marvel - based figures from years past.

Jackson faces the elephants in the room of whites and blacks having deep, meaningful relationships very quickly, especially in book two when one of the White main character's husband, Denny, is mistaken by, MaDea, an aging African American woman who is suffering from dementia, as one of the men who brutally lynched her brother nearly 70 years ago.

It provides a base for new coalitions between Roman Catholics and Protestants (witness the ecumenical character of its adherents), liberals and conservatives (witness the continuing concerns of the World Council of Churches and the evangelicals» Chicago Declaration), «majorities» and «minorities» (witness the numerous theological works written from black, feminist, Latin American and Anglo perspectives), and therefore can become an acceptable, sound theological foundation for church education.

In the sequel, Willard, with coauthor Gary Black, engages the ideas of the common good and moral leadership, arguing against the notion that leadership skills can be effectively compartmentalized apart from personal character.

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.

I've made Patapon characters from hula hoops and black cloth and a Nayn Cat out of paint and cardboard, complete with an iPod speaker to play that annoying song as our son ran around.

Padfoot got his camp name from his favorite character in Harry Potter: Padfoot (aka Sirius Black!).

So cagey is Rahim's performance that it's not until his character goes to deliver faked documents to an Algerian Jewish family — he discovers the parents have already been arrested and rescues their two small daughters — that the viewer is entirely sure his transformation from small - time black market dealer to freedom fighter is complete.

Steppin» Out's Chaunce Hayden, who traffics in busty characters like these almost as busily as Davis did, reports that the madam is seeking to sell the names from her little black book back to the New York heavyweights and Hollywood stars that are in it.

First, the team found clips of mixed - race scenes from 11 popular TV shows with prominent black and white characters.

To assess whether characters of both races were being treated equally, the researchers cropped out a single character from each clip, either white or black, and turned off the sound.

People may instinctively know right from wrong, but determining if someone has good moral character is not a black and white endeavor.

Black & White Games like The Sims or SimCity are often called god games because the player controls the world from above, shaping the destinies of multiple on - screen characters.

For instance, my favorites include Kenzie from Lost Girl and Sarah from Orphan Black, but you can choose any kind of character or person you like.

Combining orange, white, black and pink, this printed pullover from Kenzo will breathe color and character into any edit with a fun floral design.

Maybe this stems from popular cinema, when the main character, a sassy femme fatale, zips up those long black high - heel boots before doing something which is both questionable and admirable at the same time.

Based on the characters from DC, Black Lightning is from Berlanti Productions and Akil Productions in association with Warner Bros..

When you have to rename a character from Morris Black to Malvern Bump (Philip Baker Hall) just to meet legal requirements, perhaps it's not a story you should be telling.

What's more, the choice to largely wipe from existence characters who are more or less vital to the future of the Marvel Cinematic Universe as a going concern (especially Star - Lord, Spider - Man, and freakin» Black Panther) so dramatically inflates the stakes that it becomes all but certain the next movie will reverse most of these deaths.

NEW YORK (AP)-- The title character of Jason Reitman's «Tully» descends not from the clouds, carried by an umbrella in the wind, but glides cheerfully through the front door on a black night.

From his first great success in «MASH» to the wonderful «Cookie's Fortune» (1999), there are a lot of interlocking characters in his stories, and almost alone among white American directors he never forgets that a lot of black people live and work in town.

This is fine in the first ten minutes or so where the characters are being introduced and the Squad is being assembled; there's a lot of welcome black humour, particularly from a well - cast Margot Robbie, which serves to separate her version of the character from that in Batman: The Animated Series.

The main storyline involves a nefarious crime lord, played by Marvin «Krondon» Jones III, whose gang, The 100, is terrifying the city, but it's Black Lightning's journey into social issues — the character quotes Martin Luther King Jr. at one point in the premiere — that separates him from the rest of the superhero pack.

With solid actors, good writing, vibrant costume work, a terrific score from Coogler - regular Ludwig Goransson (Central Intelligence, Stretch), humor that's delivered with refreshing subtlety, and Coogler's taut pacing that also takes the time to build up its scenarios, Black Panther succeeds at delivering an unlikely solo effort in the superhero genre, and leaves skeptics and those completely unaware of the characters within the comic books hungry for more.

Black's feature directing experience might be limited to Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, but that underappreciated gem did feature plenty of quick quips from Robert Downey Jr.'s lead character.

Jordan explained his motivation for the Killmonger character in an interview with Rolling Stone: «This young black man from Oakland, growing up in systemic oppression, not having his mom and dad around, going to foster care, being a part of this system... I understood his rage, and how he could get to the point where he had to do what he had to do, by any means necessary.»

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.

The most prominent characters include Haven Hamilton (Henry Gibson), a socially conservative, arrogant country music star; Linnea Reese (Lily Tomlin), a gospel singer and mother of two deaf children; Del Reese (Ned Beatty), her lawyer husband and Hamilton's legal representative, who works as the local political organizer for the Tea Party - like Hal Philip Walker Presidential campaign; Opal (Geraldine Chaplin), an insufferably garrulous and pretentious BBC Radio reporter on assignment in Nashville, or so she claims; talented but self - involved sex - addict Tom Frank (Keith Carradine), one - third of a moderately successful folk trio who's anxious to launch a solo career; John Triplette (Michael Murphy), the duplicitous campaign consultant who condescendingly tries to secure top Nashville stars to perform at a nationally - syndicated campaign rally; Barbara Jean (Ronee Blakley), the emotionally - fragile, beloved Loretta Lynn - like country star recovering from a burn accident; Barnett (Allen Garfield), Barbara Jean's overwhelmed manager - husband; Mr. Green (Keenan Wynn), whose never - seen ailing wife is on the same hospital ward as Barbara Jean; groupie Martha (Shelley Duvall), Green's niece, ostensibly there to visit her ailing aunt but so personally irresponsible that she instead spends all her time picking up men; Pfc. Glenn Kelly (Scott Glenn), who claims his mother saved Barbara Jean's life but who mostly seems obsessed with the country music star; Sueleen Gay (Gwen Welles), a waitress longing for country music fame, despite her vacuous talent; Bill and Mary (Allan F. Nicholls and Cristina Raines), the other two - thirds of Tom's folk act, whose ambition overrides constant personal rancor; Winifred (Barbara Harris), another would - be singer - songwriter, fleeing to Nashville from her working - class husband, Star (Bert Remsen); Kenny Frasier (David Hayward), a loner who rents a room from Mr. Green and carries around a violin case; Bud Hamilton (Dave Peel), the gentle, loyal son of the abrasive Hamilton; Connie White (Karen Black), a glamorous country star who is a last - minute substitute for Barbara Jean at the Grand Old Opry; Wade Cooley (Robert DoQui), a cook at the airport restaurant where Sueleen works as a waitress and who tries unsuccessfully to convince her that she has no talent; and the eccentric Tricycle Man (Jeff Goldblum), who rides around in a three - wheel motorcycle, occasionally interacting with the other characters, showing off his amateur magic tricks, but who has no dialogue.

The film is essentially a large - scale reunion of three dozen beloved Marvel characters ranging from Don Cheadle's War Machine and Tom Hiddleston's Loki to Tom Holland's Spider - Man, Chadwick Boseman's Black Panther and Benedict Cumberbatch's Dr. Strange.

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».

He is a despised character within the film designed to show the audience how loathsome many representations of black identity have been, from The Birth of a Nation onwards.

The story gets a lot of humor out of Po; Jack Black's voicing invests him with more personality than you'd expect from a character who resembles a balloon in the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade.

It's only upon reflection that viewers may realize that, despite its nominal title character, the movie never delves that deeply into who Gloria Grahame was, aside from a femme fatale slinking across a black - and - white screen.

For this sleazy Harold Ramis - directed Judd Apatow production is unfunny from beginning to end, starting with the moment when Black's character informs us that he's slept with his own mother.

Issue # 1 is out now, and in this awesome video from Marvel, Coates reminds you exactly why T'Challa, aka Black Panther, is such a special character.

Dressed in cream culottes and a transparent black blouse from Maison Scotch, she looks like a slightly grown - up and more sophisticated version of her famous Devil Wears Prada character.

He may just be the greatest character actor working today with a resume to prove it playing everyone from Sid Vicious (Sid and Nancy), Beethoven (Immortal Beloved), and Lee Harvey Oswald (JFK) to fictional characters like Dracula (Bram Stoker's Dracula), Commissioner Jim Gordon (The Dark Knight trilogy), and Harry Potter's Sirius Black.

Natasha Lyonne switches from her troubled «Orange Is the New Black» character to play Shannon's good girl but co-dependent sister, Martha.

For all the talk of existential ennui and economic security among this cast of characters, the motivations of Icelandic director Baltasar Kormákur ultimately ring clearest: He's shifting his Hollywood aspirations from the grime - crime of Tony Scott («Contraband» and «2 Guns») to the marriage of grandeur and intimacy preferred by Tony's brother, Ridley, in «White Squall,» «Black Hawk Down» or «Gladiator» (which also boasted «Everest» co-writer William Nicholson in its credits).

Sentenced to three years in jail upon getting into a scuffle with a couple of fuzz trying to stop him from busking in the park, Otis, for starters, would be a far more resonant character if he were portrayed by a black actor (it doesn't count that the icky Matthews suffers from delusions of soul), since there's nothing to justify his martyr complex.

During the reveal, Treyarch confirmed that the Blackout map will feature a mishmash of many multiplayer maps from Black Ops history, as well as characters, equipment, and weapons all in the same game.

Several of today's male heroes, including Zachary Levi (Heroes Reborn), Jordan Gavaris (Orphan Black), Sam Heughan (Outlander), Kevin Durand (The Strain) and Michael Cudlitz (The Walking Dead) who will discuss the thrills and fears of taking on iconic characters, reveal how they broke into the business, and share their favorite stories from set.

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

We've seen the Killmonger character don his own gold fight suit similar to Black Panther's and go head - to - head with T'Challa in footage from some action set pieces in the movie.

Samira Wiley and her megawatt smile almost made us forget the horrible things we'd just seen on Orange is the New Black; Thandie Newton stole the show from its leads while Emily Browning made an originally underwritten character into something of a hero in American Gods.

The Afro - punk and Afrofuturism aesthetics, the unapologetic black swagger, the miniscule appearances from non-black characters — it's an important resetting of a standard of what's possible around creating a mythology for a black superhero.

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.