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  • Marvel Misses Another Easy Opportunity for LGBTQ Representation With Black Panther

    02/13/2018 6:38:00 AM PST · by C19fan · 31 replies
    IO9 Gizmodo ^ | February 12, 2018 | Charles Pulliam-Moore
    In Ta-Nehisi Coates, Roxane Gay, and Yona Harvey’s most recent runs on Black Panther and World of Wakanda, Ayo and Aneka—two of the Dora Milaje—are lovers who play a pivotal role in the civil uprising that occurs at a time when Wakanda’s society is on the brink of collapse. Given the amount of screen time given to the squad of warrior women in Ryan Coogler’s Black Panther, one of the biggest questions about the film has been whether it would at all incorporate any elements of Ayo’s (Florence Kasumba) sexuality, or even the idea that queer women were a part...
  • Brian De Palma wins Best Director award at Venice with 'Redacted' (I hate America Film)

    09/09/2007 2:27:41 PM PDT · by Bulldawg Fan · 15 replies · 1,075+ views
    www.drudgereport ^ | 9/8/07 | AFP
    Veteran US director Brian De Palma won the Best Director award at the Venice film festival on Saturday for "Redacted," his hard-hitting Iraq war film. The dramatisation of the rape and murder of an Iraqi girl by US soldiers, was also honoured on Friday with the Future Film Festival Digital Award, for the film that makes the best use of animation or visual effects. De Palma, who is best known for such violent fictions as the psychic thriller "Carrie" and the gangster movie "Scarface" (1983), turns 67 on Tuesday. The film exposing the ugly reality of the Iraq war seared...
  • Cure for the glitter glut? Dwindling ratings cast pall over awardcasts (Michael Moore)

    01/23/2005 7:34:30 AM PST · by fight_truth_decay · 41 replies · 1,245+ views
    Variety.com ^ | Sun., Jan. 23, 2005 | MICHAEL SCHNEIDER
    Hollywood is ready for a kudocast overhaul. "I don't think it's enough to just hand out awards. In order to survive, award shows need to be the variety specials of the new millennium," says Bob Bain, a producer of the Billboard and Teen Choice awards shows. The Jan. 16 Golden Globes slumped to their worst performance since moving to NBC in 1996. The People's Choice Awards posted its lowest ratings on record. All this bad news comes at the height of awards season, with Oscar noms to be unveiled Jan. 25 and the ceremony slated for Feb. 27. And the...