Rihanna Is On Her Back And Ready To Make You Cry With The Song “Raise Me,” Her Amazing Tribute To Chadwick Boseman

Our long international nightmare is over: Rihanna has released new music! Breaking the Internet for the third time this year (after revealing a baby bump and announcing the Super Bowl Halftime Show), it dropped Lift Me Up late Thursday night, one of at least two contributions from Rihanna to the upcoming contest. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever Audio recording. “Lift Me Up” begins with Rihanna’s soft but distinct voice, setting a calm tone for the three-minute hymn. Her vocals are immediately interrupted in the first stanza, where she powerfully sings, “Lift…

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A former academic executive on why the Oscars are doomed

Having served as the Academy’s executive director for more than 20 years, Bruce Davis has crafted the definitive history of the Academy Awards, from their challenging beginnings to the present. Davis has been granted unprecedented access to the Academy’s archives for this persuasive reading about the way the Academy Awards function. Here at the end of his book Academy and Award: The Coming Age of the Oscars and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and SciencesHe writes about the future of the Oscars. On May 11, 1977, exactly fifty years…

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She-Hulk Season 1 Review – The Marvel Series Was Soulless Trash, But It Didn’t Have to be

Remember the sexy vampires of the ’90s? The kind of vampires who put a lot of gel in their hair and With Sarah Michelle Gellar? I started thinking about them while watching She-Hulk: Attorney at Law (And I guess this season), because I was wondering why anyone wouldn’t want to be a soulless vampire when it looks who – which. Now, though, I understand that being soulless and heartless is not as leathery and hot as it was in the ’90s. Instead, it seems a lot She-Hulk: Attorney at Law.…

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The Rare Marvel Series That Should Be Longer

While most other broadcast series can be improved with fewer episodes, Marvel is taking the opposite direction werewolf at night, a standalone event around Halloween that runs in less than an hour, although it likely would have benefited from the run twice. Back in the classic Universal monster movies, this small-screen black and white special — which arrived at Disney+ October 7 — has clever arrogance, a cool vibe, and a subtle sense of humor that suggests it might have worked out quite well. Length feature. In its current form,…

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Riri Williams makes her debut in a powerful celebration of Women’s Warriors

It’s safe to say that Black Panther: Wakanda Forever It will be an emotional watch. It was the follow-up to the hugely successful and most acclaimed Marvel movie of all time Five years in the making. At the time, he experienced an unprecedented setback: the lead man, Chadwick Boseman, also known as Prince T’Challa (Black Panther) himself, died of cancer in 2020. Production for the second part has not yet begun. Losing your star is never easy, especially when he has a role so deeply rooted in the biggest movie…

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Abigail Disney Is Exposing Her Family Company’s Worker Exploitation — and Is Sick of Marvel Superhero Movies

“I have a hand in every pot—which means I have a lot of hands,” offers Abigail Disney. Indeed, the 62-year-old filmmaker, activist, and Disney heiress—her grandfather is Disney co-founder Roy O. Disney, and her beloved great-uncle is Walt Disney—has kept herself busy over the past two decades producing a number of impactful documentaries. Among them are Pray the Devil Back to Hell, about Leymah Gbowee’s peace movement in Liberia; The Invisible War, exploring the sexual-assault epidemic in the U.S. military; Cameraperson, a riveting doc on the life of cinematographer Kirsten…

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Why are Marvel fans worried about the addition of Israeli superhero Sabra to the MCU

DrDuring the last D23 exhibition, Marvel has hit fans of its long-running mega franchise With Shock: Acting Israeli actress Shira Hass (Netflix’s Unconventional) in Captain America: New World Order Like the superhero Sabra. It wasn’t the ambiguity of the character that got people talking. After all, advertising for C-list superheroes is the bread and butter of Disney’s perpetual hype machine. It was, instead, the nature of the character involved. Sabra, you see, is Marvel’s Israeli super-soldier. And patience is Mess. As a character she is, frankly, disjointed; As a concept,…

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Megan Thee Stallion’s She-Hulk movie made the Marvel series good for a moment

When I saw the third episode of She-Hulk: Attorney at LawI honestly thought I was in the midst of a fever dream. I got a temperature and checked the lymph nodes for any swelling. But with all my vitals in a stable condition, I had to wonder exactly what was making me so unconfused. It didn’t take long for me to realize that it was because I was trying to follow someone else from Strong womanAlmost incomprehensible plot lines. Perhaps the show’s biggest achievement so far is that when it…

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Wakanda Forever’ to Spielberg’s Childhood

With the notable exceptions of Top Gun: Maverick and Everything Everywhere All at Once, this has been a pretty disappointing year at the cinema. But that may be about to change. This fall brings with it a number of intriguing films across all genres. There are psychological thrillers like Olivia Wilde’s Don’t Worry Darling and Anya Taylor-Joy starrer The Menu. Superhero epics such as The Rock’s DC antihero saga Black Adam and Marvel’s Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. Oscar-courting dramedies from Steven Spielberg (The Fabelmans) and David O. Russell (Amsterdam), and…

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Endgame’ Moment That Changed His Life

Ever since exploding onto the screen as Moses, a teen gang leader who saves his South London council estate from an alien invasion in Attack the Block, John Boyega’s star power has been undeniable. That’s what made his sidelining in the Star Wars sequel trilogy so frustrating. Despite beating out Tom Holland for the lead role of Finn, a stormtrooper turned Resistance freedom fighter in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Boyega’s presence was not only diminished in each passing film until his became an ancillary character, but he became the…

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