May 14, 2021
Entertainment News Friday May 14th2021
The MTV movie and TV Awards are set to air on Sunday with the Disney Plus show Wandavision leading the pack along with Bridgerton and The Falcon and Winter Soldier. Leslie Jones is hosting.
Comedienne Chris Rock is taking a serious turn in his new movie ‘Saw’. The horror movie Saw is in theaters now. Saw is gory and bloody as Rock teams up with Samuel L Jackson to find the killer who is shaking up New York City.
Kevin Hart is also coming to Netflix in the dramatic movie ‘Fatherhood’ Fatherhood is based on the book Two Kisses for Maddie:A Memoir of Loss and Love. Kevin Hart plays a single dad who has to raise his infant daughter after her mother dies in childbirth. Alfre Woodard plays his mother in Law and the movie also stars Lil Rel Howery, Actress Dewanda Wise (Dear White People) and Actor Paul Reiser also star. Fatherhood with Kevin Hart starts streaming on Netflix June 18th. He also returns to the big screen with Woo
Thanks to William’s brilliant pick, my gut response is Danny DeVito (the
Twins reunion we never knew we wanted!), though I have to go with my heart here and say
Kelly Marie Tran it’s what she deserves! At this point, it’s not worth re-hashing what a disservice
The Rise Of Skywalker did to her charming character Rose Tico, nor should any more lip service be paid to the racists in the Star Wars fandom, but Rian Johnson could make a sly move of filmic retribution by bringing Tran into the
Knives Out fold. Karma aside, Tran would no doubt thrive in the series’ wily world, her talent as both a comedic and dramatic actor making her an ideal foil to Benoit Blanc, à la Ana de Armas in the first movie. [Cameron Scheetz]
(
ThyBlackMan.com) Good courtroom dramas keep audiences hooked into a defendant’s fight for justice. The simpler the fight, the better. Just saying.
Screenwriters Janece Shaffer and Colen C. Wiley took their cues from the young adult novel
Monster, which was written in 1999 by Walter Dean Myers. He was an author who wrote over 100 children/YA books during his 45-year-old career. Raised in Harlem he was greatly affected by his urban upbringing and many of his stories reflected on inner city life and the challenges he faced as a young
Black man. That’s the core of the plotline for this film, when it’s not obscured.
Monster cast buoys Netflix crime drama that doesn t quite meet moment
Monster.
Photo by Anna Kooris/Netflix The reckoning over how Black people, and especially Black men, are too often regarded as threats by police and the public at large has been a long time coming. While there are examples of films confronting the issue going back decades, recent years have seen a notable uptick of filmmakers trying to illuminate something that has remained in the dark for much too long. The latest film to do so is
Monster, which centers on Steve Harmon (Kelvin Harrison, Jr.), a clean-cut kid with a passion for filmmaking who happens to live in a not-so-good neighborhood in New York City. As the film begins, Steve is in jail for what we soon learn is being an accomplice to the murder of a convenience store clerk, a crime committed by neighborhood acquaintances Richard “Bobo” Evans (John David Washington) and William King (Rakim Mayers, aka ASAP Rocky) while trying to rob the store.
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