Forget about contemporary depictions of sparkling vampires and soft-focus neck-sucking: Vampire lore is filled with horror and violence. It is also, as filmmakers Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement note, filled with comic possibilities.
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#Flight of the Conchords #What We Do in the Shadows #Jmaine Clement #Taika Waititi #Film #vampires #ArtsNo, ‘Flight of the Conchords’ aren’t returning to HBO — but here are 7 reasons why they really should
3. Bret & Jemaine’s charity gig was better than the ice bucket challenge.
The ‘Chords’ 2012 single benefitting Cure Kids was, to say the least, much funnier than watching a bunch of people you knew in high school pour water over their heads.
After years of swelling controversy over the lack of representation of people of color, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced that 683 people who work in film were invited to join the academy, and almost half of them are people of color. Though they still managed to potentially slight these inductees.
As the Sundance Film Festival draws closer, film buffs are buzzing about some of the festival’s most hotly anticipated premieres, including Southside With You, a romantic film that tells the story of the Obamas’ first date in Chicago in 1989. Where you’ve seen stars Tika Sumpter and Parker Sawyers before.
Drake released a 14-minute film Thursday called Jungle, a typically reflective, brooding journey with Drizzy. The movie starts with Drake’s driver asking how his night was — probably expecting something simple like “fine” — when Drake launches into a soliloquy about the universe and his place in it.
This is typical Drake fare, so if you’re not down with the whole thing, we have a convenient summary for you.
Octavia Spencer will star in the upcoming film Hidden Figures, about a real-life group of mathematical geniuses who played a major role in the U.S.’ expeditions to space — and who also happened to be black women. Spencer will star opposite the film’s protagonist, played by Taraji P. Henson.
The team of seven masterminds helped NASA with a number of major space outings, among them John Glenn’s 1962 Friendship 7 mission, during which he became the first American to orbit the Earth. The film will zoom in on three of those women Katherine Johnson (Henson), Mary Jackson and Dorothy Vaughan. Spencer’s role is yet to be publicly confirmed. Hidden Figures has the potential to help shatter barriers inside and outside of Hollywood.
Magic Mike XXL takes an axe to one of film’s most brittle tropes — the male romantic hero — and reveals the ways that trope constricts the pleasure of men and women alike. In doing so, the film becomes just as much of a vehicle for breaking down masculine gender roles as it is for straight female pleasure.
Film studio heads are 94% white and 100% male, TV network and studio heads are 96% white, 71% male; senior management in the film industry is 92% white, 83% male, and senior management in the TV industry is 93% white, 73% male.
Whether or not Moonlight took home the Best Picture trophy Sunday night, it would’ve been a standout film with deep personal, political and cultural resonance. But its win elevates the film to the level of cultural artifact. People will be able to tell from this win what mattered to people in 2016. And this year, black queer lives mattered.
Where mainstream LGBTQ media has offered mostly white representation before, with notable exceptions like Noah’s Arc, Moonlight centers on both unapologetic queerness and blackness. It treats its queer, black and Latino characters with dignity and respect.
In a world that is still striving to understand intersectionality, Moonlight doesn’t compartmentalize Chiron’s blackness and his queerness. It allows him, and other characters, to be radically fully-realized, whole people. And when you create psychologically complex characters full of agency, it allows us to feel that we can be the same. Read more (Opinion)
