Sentences with phrase «movie about black»

«A movie about a Black superhero with an all - female posse that actually says something about our world» — Chris Knight, National Post

This is an intriguing movie about a black guy who goes to meet his white girlfriend's parents full of apprehension.

That will finally change with Black Panther, the first Marvel movie about a black superhero.

As fitting as it might've been to have the first Marvel Cinematic Universe movie about a black hero in theaters while the first black commander in chief was in office, Narcisse feels it wouldn't have conjured the same kind of pop - cultural moment.

It also makes Selma the rare studio movie about black American history to not focus on (or invent) a white savior figure.

The horror movie about a black man named Chris (Daniel Kaluuya) going to visit his white girlfriend's in - laws takes a devastating turn when he realizes his girlfriend's family is not just hyper - racist — they're progenitors of a cultish group that lures black men to their neighborhood so that their white neighbors can take control of their minds.

It's not a movie about black and white.

The idea of matter escaping the alleged point - of - no - return was surprising (it's a central plot point in that other recent movie about black holes, the biographical The Theory of Everything), but the fate of information that falls into the black hole was what really troubled Hawking's colleagues.

I would watch an entire damn movie about black mask LeBron wreaking havoc on anyone who came across him.

Why not a movie about the blacks and baseball, there have been more blacks in baseball than the jews

«Movies about black people do really badly in the international market.»

You could argue that this represents a real cross-section of Southern attitudes and how they evolved through the Civil Rights movement and into the modern day, or you could see it as simpering, middlebrow - pleasing pabulum meant to assure its middle - class elderly white audience that it's not racist and appreciates good, Oscar - feted movies about black folk (written / directed / produced by white folks) based on Pulitzer Prize - winning plays (by white folks).

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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!

Amid all the hype about the Black Panther movie following its premiere Monday night, it would be easy to forget that the movie has an original soundtrack compiled and produced by Kendrick Lamar, one of the world's most popular and most prestigious musicians.

I am sick of him talking about black people going to see movies.

Call it, as Coogler himself does, a movie about what it means to be black in the world.

These days, the Marvel movie on everyone's lips is Black Panther, but we'd be remiss to entirely forget about Thor: Ragnarok, a shaggy, sci - fi buddy comedy that just happened to take place against a vista of wild, intergalactic gladiatorial combat.

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.

About a month ago I went to see the new Black Panther movie with a friend.

The Disney - Marvel movie «Black Panther,» which finds the superheroic T'Challa (Chadwick Boseman) returning to his remote African kingdom to assume the throne, roared into theaters over the weekend as a full - blown cultural event, breaking box office records and shattering a myth about the overseas viability of movies rooted in black culBlack Panther,» which finds the superheroic T'Challa (Chadwick Boseman) returning to his remote African kingdom to assume the throne, roared into theaters over the weekend as a full - blown cultural event, breaking box office records and shattering a myth about the overseas viability of movies rooted in black culblack culture.

The United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc at the weekend boosted the entertainment industry as it brought up the premieres of the much talked about movie, the Black Panther.

Ingmar Bergman's famous 1957 movie The Seventh Seal takes place during the 14th century, when Europe is in the midst of a major epidemic of the bubonic plague — the Black Death — which ultimately killed about half the population.

According to the calculations of Caltech physicist Kip Thorne, who served as scientific consultant for Interstellar, the movie's black hole, known as Gargantua, must have had a mass 100 million times that of the sun and whirled about its own axis at breakneck speeds.

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She introduces her guest Anil Kapoor and they talk about his role in a movie and make black daal.

Besides from being famous as the ex-husband of Madonna and an accomplished movie director and screenwriter, Guy Ritchie has some major talents to brag about, one of which is represented by a black belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu.

We catched up with the Californian musician before one of her gigs of the European tour and talked with her about black sides, underground music and movies played in slow - motion.

As we heard so many good things about the movie — and its a pretty big thing in the black community — we are more than excited to see it.

And the overall messages and themes and in - jokes about black culture was just heartwarming to see, and then to witness weeks later this fabulous movie lead and directed and cast by black people break the box office record by gaining $!

In this article, we discuss about the most important lessons you may learn from black movies:

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They Still Can't Show a Black Man Dating a White Woman (Unless That's What the Whole Movie Is About)

Black Panther hits many high notes as a superhero movie, but it also contains a hopeful message about the tribe of humanity.

When John, who's black, tells Ann, about Caleb, «Y ’ all be white people together,» the movie is so unprepared to deal with John's insecurity that you almost think they might be better off without him.

Jordan, as a swaggering anti-hero whose tragedy grounds «Black Panther» in lived pain, just about steals the movie.

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.

I just mean this: Black people have had to try to see themselves in movies about white people since forever, if they wanted to take any entertainment from most movies, that is.

After futile protestations about a recent sunscreen application, she sets her phone down and the home movie cuts to black.

Perhaps the more astonishing thing is that this movie is a black comedy about domestic violence, parental abuse, and low self - esteem... and it works.

This skepticism about Wakanda is both Black Panther's greatest strength and, ultimately, the reason its climactic battle lets down the rest of the movie just a little bit.

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.

For the most part, the movie is really a black comedy about Los Angeles - style self - obsession spiced with sudden drug interludes that jar you for a minute, then fade from memory as we head on to the next (occasionally facile) showbiz send - up.

This is a serious movie with some serious things to say about how blacks were treated in the Old South but there's plenty of action to go along with the darker material.

Adapted from the Vertigo comic book series comes The Losers, an action movie about a group of badass ex-CIA black ops operatives who go on a rogue mission to take down the corrupt individual who tried to kill them.