In addition to revealing its massive Phase 4 plans, Marvel Studios announced Saturday at Comic-Con that Avengers: Endgame finally surpassed Avatar at the global box office to become the highest-grossing film ever. James Cameron’s 2009 sci-fi epic held the worldwide record for a decade with $2.788 billion in global box …
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It’s a big week for streaming service trailers — we’ve got one Hulu doc on the world’s most famous sex doctor, and no less than five (!) Netflix-related projects dropping clips. Plus Amazon gives us a brief peek at its Jordan Peele-produced Lorena Bobbitt doc, and YouTube shows off its …
Read More »The Year in Movies 2018: Infinity Wars, Reborn Stars and the Netflix Blues Explosion
You hear the water before you see it — a slight splashing sound happening somewhere outside the frame, the camera trained on a floor. Then it rushes in, covering the tiles like the tide. A square patch of sunlight is reflected in the soapy puddle; we see a plane, tiny …
Read More »Hear Run the Jewels' Ominous 'Let's Go (The Royal We)'
Run the Jewels released a rugged new single titled “Let’s Go (The Royal We)” on Thursday. The song appears in the new Marvel film Venom. The beat is the star here — the instrumental is nasty, patient and buzzing. Run the Jewels’ El-P and Killer Mike take turns rapping tightly …
Read More »The 'Black Panther' Revolution
Two years ago, Chadwick Boseman was in a movie called Gods of Egypt. It was not a very good movie. But in addition to its not-goodness, it also became infamous for whitewashing – casting, as ancient African deities, a white guy from Scotland, a white guy from Denmark and at …
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