Premiering tonight at the semi-virtual Sundance Film Festival, Summer Of Soul (…Or, When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised) is both an exhilarating and chastising experience. Unearthing a cultural sarcophagus of 1969 Black America, the dexterous directorial debut by Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson is full of triumphal performances from some of the greatest musicians of that
Welp, so much for Target… Remember how Walmart accidentally leaked Morgan’s album a week early? And you remember how Morgan basically said fuck Walmart, buy the album at Target and you’ll get a couple bonus tracks? Welp, those two bonus tracks, “Bandaid On A Bullet Hole” and “This Side Of A Dust Cloud” are now
Country singer Kelsey Lamb is unapologetically going back to an ex in her new song “Come Here to Talk.” Lamb pitched the title “Come Here to Talk” to co-writers Taylor Goyette and Joe Tounge during a Zoom-based writing session early in the COVID-19 pandemic. “[I] immediately fell in love with what we started. We wrote the
We’re officially a few episodes into WandaVision, and its impact on the Marvel Cinematic Universe is gradually making itself known. The series, which is the inaugural Marvel Cinematic Universe installment to debut exclusively on Disney+, has been expanding on the Marvel Comics mythos of both Wanda Maximoff/Scarlet Witch (Elizabeth Olsen) and The Vision (Paul Bettany),
Cicely Tyson, who forged a path for scores of Black actors on Broadway and in Hollywood, has died. Tyson was a force in entertainment for decades, but in her early years she had few role models because there were few people of color who were at the top of the Hollywood game. She won 2
WandaVision’s creator is thrilled by the fan reaction to the Marvel series so far. It’s been astounding how big the Disney+ bet was on these weekly original programs. But, so far things have gone just fine for Marvel with WandaVision. Jack Schaeffer talked to The Hindustan Times about the show and how fans have taken
Amanda Gorman, the National Youth Poet Laureate who read her poem “The Hill We Climb” at President Joe Biden’s inauguration, stopped by The Daily Show to discuss how much her life has changed since appearing on the national stage. “When I was writing the poem, I knew it was a historic moment, I knew it was
This post was originally published in our YA newsletter, What’s Up in YA. Sign up for it here to get YA news, reviews, deals, and more! In the latest episode of Hey YA, Hannah brought up a book set in the 1970s and how that’s a time period we don’t see portrayed much in YA
Cicely Tyson, the trailblazing actress died whose career spanned more than six decades, died Thursday afternoon, her manager Larry Thompson confirmed. She was 96. From the start of her career, Tyson resolved to portray strong, positive, and realistic images of black women onscreen, and for many, she represented an enduring strength. Tyson received an Oscar
Linda Beigel Schulman, whose son Scott Beigel was killed ushering students to safety in the Parkland school shooting in 2018, speaks out against Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene after video of her surfaced saying the shooting was a “false flag.” #CNN #News
Earth as we know and love it may become a thing of the past. ‘Telescope’ – by Collin Davis & Matt Litwiller (presented in 4k) Subscribe to the DUST Newsletter: https://bit.ly/signal_newsletter #DUST #scifi #shortfilm More About Telescope: That’s the starting premise of Collin Davis’s “Telescope.” This thoughtfully crafted short film follows a brave cosmic archaeologist
This Walker review contains spoilers. Walker Episode 2 Walker’s “Back in the Saddle” sees this show starting to find its groove after the introductory pilot. While the first episode was very much set up and angst, this episode is about expanding on everything that we’ve seen already and working on reconnecting a family broken by
LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles Controller Ron Galperin said Thursday that the city’s pandemic-related financial problems will likely get worse before they get better. The city’s revenues decreased by 4% between July 1, 2019, and June 30 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, while in the previous fiscal year, revenues increased by 13.7%, according to the
The US economy suffered its worst annual decline for 74 years in 2020 as the pandemic crushed business activity and pushed millions of Americans out of work, official figures showed. Gross domestic product (GDP) shrank by 3.5%, the biggest fall since 1946 when America was demobilising after the Second World War. Output is now recovering
Travel to the UK from the United Arab Emirates, Burundi and Rwanda will be banned as the government takes further action to prevent the spread of the COVID variant first found in South Africa. From 1pm on Friday, non-British or Irish passengers who have been in or transited through those countries in the last 10
Researchers have disclosed a new family of Android malware that abuses accessibility services in the device to hijack user credentials and record audio and video. Dubbed “Oscorp” by Italy’s CERT-AGID, the malware “induce(s) the user to install an accessibility service with which [the attackers] can read what is present and what is typed on the
The Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra 5G is the company’s most premium smartphone yet, with a strong focus on cameras. Just like the Galaxy S20 Ultra (Review), this new model boasts of 100X “space zoom” and 8K video recording, but with an improved shooting experience and even better image quality. We’ve already talked about the design and
Boohoo Group is in advanced talks to acquire the remaining components of Sir Philip Green’s high street empire in a deal that will accelerate the transition of famous British retail names to becoming online-only brands. Sky News has learnt that Boohoo is nearing exclusive negotiations to snap up the Burton, Dorothy Perkins and Wallis brands
EXCLUSIVE: CAA has signed screenwriter, producer and author Selwyn Seyfu Hinds. Hinds’ has a handful of films in development including Prince Of Cats, the adaptation of Ronald Wimberly’s graphic novel, at Legendary; and 1000 Miles, based on the memoir Running A Thousand Miles For Freedom by William and Ellen Craft, to be directed by Hanelle M. Culpepper for
It just might be. When it comes to playlists, good luck finding something this good. Just not possible – 120 songs of ’90s country gold for your bad days, your good days, your drinking days, any day really. Grab a 30 rack, a bottle of whiskey, a joint, and turn it up. Follow Whiskey Riff