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Realistic waistlines, realistic faces: there are very few ways Disney princesses haven’t been reimagined at this point. None of these comforting images, however, hit as close to home as seeing what the princesses would look like if their hair and makeup were a little less perfect. Buzzfeed shared these glorious makeunders back in April, and now…
Every single word spoken by a person of color in every film in the blockbuster ‘Harry Potter’ franchise. everysinglewordspoken.tumblr.com ▶ Every Single Word Spoken by a Person of Color in the Entire ‘Harry Potter’ Film Series – YouTube.
Written & Produced by Bob Chipman Special Thanks this episode to Megan Kearns REALLY THAT GOOD is a new kind of film-criticism series, built around the radical premise that just because “everyone knows” a movie is a classic doesn’t mean it stops being worth a deeper look. That THE AVENGERS changed the landscape of action…
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No matter where he appears—comics, movies, television, Lego toys—Batman is a hit. Now, according to the latest reports from the production of Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice, Warners executives were so wowed by Ben Affleck’s performance that they’re planning to build the DC cinematic universe around him, too. So what’s the problem? A lot…
We all loved Pixar’s Inside Out when it hit theaters in June. Want more from that interesting world? Now we have a short film to look forward to! The first Inside Out short titled “Riley’s First Date” was announced Thursday and brings back Riley, her family, and all of their emotions. It’ll premiere on the…
Who am I? What am I doing here? (Ben Rothstein/Twentieth Century Fox via Associated Press) When I saw how “Fantastic Four” was ranked on Rotten Tomatoes, I ran straight to the theater. Eight percent fresh? I wondered. But how? Was that even possible? That was south of Congress and genital herpes. Now I know why….
The all-female cast of the new Ghostbusters film – Melissa McCarthy, Kriten Wiig, Kate McKinnonm and Leslie Jones – took the time out of their busy schedules to visit patients at the Tufts Medical Center in Boston in their full Ghostbusters gear. Tufts Medical Center’s staff posted the photos from their visit and their thanks on…
Director F. Gary Gray’s group-endorsed new N.W.A biopic Straight Outta Compton brings us back to a time when hip-hop didn’t yet dominate popular culture. Now that rap has long been at the forefront of pop music, it’s easy to forget that in the 1980s, the form wasn’t just new but also novel, an outsider’s music…
myParagraphType: , myParagraphCount: 6 click to enlarge Fun fact: When Tarantino first released Reservoir Dogs in 1992, he wasn’t the acclaimed director he is today. In fact, among the first major press Reservoir Dogs got was a cover story in Detroit’s Orbit Magazine — the now long-defunct culture magazine that graces our cover this week. The…