How many times do we watch an injustice happen to a compete stranger or even a next door neighbor and run a blind eye? Better yet, what if a loved one passes on and has a final wish they are insistent be carried out...would you do it?
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ABFF 2017: CREATED EQUAL→
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In a world where gender equality remains a critical issue, this controversial film, doesn't set out to challenge the Catholic Church doctrine, but asks a very modern question... Should women be allowed into seminaries to study for the priesthood? "Created Equal is a film that gives you a voyeur experience into the stained glass ceiling that exists in the Catholic Church and asks the question about women being allowed into seminaries without actually taking sides," shares Bill Duke. "We are so excited that the American Black Film Festival has officially selected our film as a world premiere and look forward to the conversation that is created around this highly debated topic."
Read MoreSophia Coppola Makes History at 70th Annual Cannes Film Festival
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Oscar-winner Sofia Coppola made Cannes Film Festival history becoming the second woman in the event’s 70-year history to win best director for her Focus Features release The Beguiled. Previously, Soviet director Yuliva Solntseva won for her 1961 war drama Chronicle of Flaming Years about the Russian’s resistance to the 1941 Nazi occupation.
Read MoreBEATRIZ AT DINNER
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Beatriz, an intuitive healer and massage therapist, drives to Newport Beach for a session with one of her most loyal clients, Cathy (Connie Britton). When her car breaks down and am unable to get it fixed until the following morning, Cathy invites Beatriz to stay for dinner and that's when the fireworks begin.
Read MoreI AM HEATH LEDGER
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Described by his Mom as a "wild stallion", this overzealous Australian teen booked his first film "10 Things I Hate About You," shortly upon arrival in Tinseltown. However, it was his big break opposite Mel Gibson in The Patriot that put him on the map and Brokeback Mountain made him an A-list star.
Read MoreCOPWATCH
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Do we ever wonder what happens to those capturing the injustice? I know I didn't, but thanks to the new documentary Copwatch that portal has now been opened. Directed by Camilla Hall, this documentary profiles several WeCopwatch members - revealing how their mission to film police brutality has impacted their lives. This isn't about what happened in front of the cameras, but about those who stood behind them. The members featured captured the fatal arrests of Eric Garner, Michael Brown and Freddie Gray.
Read More#inspiringWomanPBS Maya: And Still I Rise→
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We don't know the heartbreak of never having a lifetime love. We don't know how isolating and lonely it is to be a strong, intelligent, independent black woman. We don't know what it is to balance love for a parent, even when that parent treats you as if you have rocks for a brain. These are the Maya Angelou private images that we would never know...until now.
Read MoreAn Inconvenient Sequel - Truth to Power
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Al Gore has been instrumental in keeping the conversation front and center, but like any issue that reaps the benefits of government assistance, he has been met with resistance and criticism from likely and unlikely sources. His biggest critic? The 45th President of the United States - Donald J. Trump. Trump has gleefully boasted that global warming is a hoax and at one point demanded that Gore's Nobel Peace Prize be taken away.
Read MoreMarches, Trump, The Blackhouse and HBCU's at the Forefront of Sundance 2017
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Hosted by Jessica Williams, the 2017 awards ceremony was a celebration of independent film, but also a detestation of the new administration of President Donald Trump. With Executive Orders banning citizens from a number of Muslim majority countries from entering the U.S. for the next several months and more, his January 20 inauguration threw a shadow over the festival, coming one day after this year’s Robert Redford-founded shindig kicked off.
Read MoreBright Lights: RIP Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds
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As many people have seen in numerous posts over the years, I unequivocably love my mother. She's my sheroe. She taught me that it was never too late in life to accomplish ANYTHING. She is one of the bravest women I know, loves me unconditionally and sometimes behaves as if she doesn't want to ever let me grow up. One day, as we prepared to go out somewhere, she was tugging on my clothes annoying me to no end. Being a smartass I quipped, "You're always going to be my mother aren't you?". She quickly snapped, "Well, what did you expect...of course I am".
Read MoreHidden Figures and Fences Get No BAFTA Love - 2017 BAFTA Nominations→
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BAFTA nominations were announced today and the love toward American artists in general was a little less than stellar. American Cinema has always outstretched our arms embracing artists from other countries...particularly the Brits. How many times have we nominated Dames Helen Mirren, Judi Dench, Emma Thompson or Sir Anthony Hopkins?
Read MoreFENCES
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Recreating their award-winning roles, Davis and Washington are masterful as Rose and Troy. Set in 1950's Pittsburgh, we watch the demise of a family unit for a variety of complex, yet familiar reasons. Troy (Washington) constantly relives his days from the Negro Baseball League with the realization that his life as a sanitation worker are less that what he dreamed for himself and his family.
Read MoreMaya: And Still I Rise→
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Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise gives a rare glimpse to the world of Angelou that has rarely been seen through the eyes of close friends and her only son.
Read MoreMANCHESTER BY THE SEA
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Manchester By The Sea is taking this American Cinema award season by storm...literally. With award-winning performances by Casey Affleck and Lucas Hedges, the audience is taken on the journey of what it feels like to have to go back home when a tragedy strikes.
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Too short. Too Black. Too Fat. This is what record execs told Sharon Jones while she pursued a record deal. Man, did she prove everyone wrong...including herself!
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#LaLaLand brings #hollywood #musical #glamour back to the the silver screen http://wp.me/p2v8yf-2iO #aafca #lionsgate
Read MoreA KIND OF MURDER→
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Based on Highsmith's 1960 thriller ("The Blunderer"), A Kind of Murder investigates how quick one is jump to conclusions of guilt or innocence. Architect Walter Stackhouse and his wife Clara have a troubled marriage, but is it troubled enough for Walter to commit murder? On the other side of town Kimmel is accused of murdering his wife and regularly harassed by the cops. Did he or didn't he do it?
Read MoreMoonlight Takes Over Gotham
/The IFP Gotham Awards were handed out at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City last night, and A24’s Moonlight was off to a good award-season start, taking home Best Feature and Best Screenplay to go with its previously announced special jury ensemble award. Casey Affleck won Best Actor for Manchester by the Sea, and Isabelle Huppert took Best Actress for Elle besting out award doyens Natalie Portman and Annette Bening. Check out the full list of winners below.
Here is the complete list of winners at the 26th annual Gotham Awards:
BEST FEATURE
Moonlight
Barry Jenkins, director; Adele Romanski, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, producers (A24)
BEST ACTOR
Casey Affleck
Manchester by the Sea (Amazon Studios)
BEST ACTRESS
Isabelle Huppert
Elle (Sony Pictures Classics)
SPECIAL GOTHAM JURY AWARD
Cast Of Moonlight
(A24)
BEST DOCUMENTARY
O.J.: Made in America
Ezra Edelman, director; Caroline Waterlow, Ezra Edelman, Tamara Rosenberg, Nina Krstic, Deirdre Fenton, Erin Leyden, producers (ESPN Films)
BINGHAM RAY BREAKTHROUGH DIRECTOR AWARD
Trey Edward Shults
Krisha (A24)
BREAKTHROUGH ACTOR
Anya Taylor-Joy
The Witch (A24)
BEST SCREENPLAY
Moonlight
Story by Tarell Alvin McCraney; Screenplay by Barry Jenkins (A24)
BREAKTHROUGH SERIES – LONGFORM
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
Rachel Bloom & Aline Brosh McKenna, creators; Marc Webb, Rachel Bloom, Aline Brosh McKenna, Erin Ehrlich, executive producers (The CW)
BREAKTHROUGH SERIES – SHORTFORM
Her Story
Jen Richards and Laura Zak, creators (herstoryshow.com)
OJ: MADE IN AMERICA
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O.J. Simpson became a product of an environment that revere's and idolizes celebrities making one color blind. No one cares what ethnicity you are when you are a rich, well-known celebrity who is an American hero.
Read MoreMISS SLOANE
/With the topsy-turvy, emotional election Americans have just experience, the release of Miss Sloane is right on time. Not to mention, that this is the performance for which Jessica Chastain will be most remembered for.
As whip-smart, ruthless lobbyist Elizabeth Sloane, Chastain masters and delivers rapid fire dialogue notably associated with celebrated television writer Aaron Sorkin. Sloane’s commitment to taking anyone and everyone down, including herself makes for an extremely interesting roller-coaster ride with an ending that smacks you in the face like a ton of bricks!! It’s all done with such an alarming speed, that if one is not paying attention, you might miss a clue or two.
Director John Madden has outdone himself on this one assembling one of the most fabulous onscreen cast this awards season. The twists and turns are dizzying, yet yummy and fascinating thanks to the brilliant writing skills of John Perera.
Gugu Mbatha-Raw can literally inhabit any type of character in any type of setting with a childlike vulnerability that is beautifully endearing to watch. However, it is layered with a quiet internal strength that took me from having empathy to having admiration
Jessica Chastain as Miss Sloane
Allison Pill , Sam Waterston, John Lithgow and the rest of this cast are stellar! They not only compliment each other, but are the perfect support for Jessica Chastain. Miss Sloane gives you an up close view at just how far a lobbyist will go to get what they want.Now in limited release in select cities, Miss Sloane can be seen nationwide TODAY.