Tag: Blindspotting
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‘Heels’ Cancelled at Starz After Two Seasons
The bell has officially rung for the Duffy Wrestling League. After just wrapping up its second season on Starz earlier this month, Variety exclusively reported that the hit wrestling drama Heels has been canceled at the network. Following a small-town independent wrestling promotion trying to take it to the next level professionally, the series starred…
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‘Lil Nas X: Long Live Montero’ Review: A Superficial Concert Doc That Could Have Been So Much More
When queer, genre-bending hip hop artist Lil Nas X first shot to fame with the infectious track “Old Town Road,” he appeared to be the culmination of Napster’s revolution. When the music download service emerged, it rendered the physical digital. Ever since then, music has been waiting for a totally viral music star. In 2019,…
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‘Blindspotting’ Season 2 Trailer: The Acclaimed Starz Series Returns In April
The idea of a TV series version of a popular film might make many people recoil in fear. That just sounds like a recipe for failure. However, we’ve seen it work out well with something like “Fargo.” And more recently, it’s been a good thing with the Starz series, “Blindspotting,” which is about to debut…
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‘Blindspotting’ Season 2 Trailer Shows Ashley’s Life Getting Out of Control
The first trailer for the new season of Blindspotting makes it clear that things won’t be getting any easier for Ashley (Jasmine Cephas-Jones) this time around. The comedy series, which is a spin-off of the 2018 film of the same name, premiered on Starz back in the summer of 2021. Right out of the gate,…
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‘Blindspotting’: Jasmine Cephas Jones Explains Why Second Episode’s Hotel Trashing Scene Is Her Favorite
Welcome to My Favorite Moment! In a new week-long series IndieWire spoke to the actors behind just a few of our favorite television performances of the year about how the onscreen moment they are most proud of came together.The Starz adaptation of the 2018 feature film “Blindspotting” is one of the most audacious and thought-provoking…
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The Film Independent Spirit Awards Need to Stop Treating TV Like Movies
Tuesday morning saw the announcement of the second-ever batch of TV nominees for the Film Independent Spirit Awards, and while the accolades represent a truly unique set of honorees, the mechanism for deciding those nominees remains painfully flawed.But first, the nominations.Film Independent didn’t appear to have any favorites with regard to TV this year, spreading…
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‘Blindspotting’ Review: Jasmine Cephas-Jones Dominates Fantastic Television Adaptation
In 2018 Rafael Casal and Daveed Diggs wrote and starred in “Blindspotting,” a look at the gentrification of Oakland alongside a parolee witnessing an officer-involved shooting. The film was bold, in-your-face, and utterly fantastic. How could lightning possibly strike twice? That comes in the form of Starz’s television adaptation, also called “Blindspotting.”This expansion of the…
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Helen Hunt Says Studio Rejected ‘Twister’ Sequel Idea with ‘All Black and Brown Storm Chasers’
Helen Hunt celebrated the 25th anniversary of Jan de Bont’s massive 1996 disaster blockbuster “Twister” by revealing a sequel she pitched that never got made.During a recent episode of “Watch What Happens Live” hosted by Andy Cohen, Hunt said she showed interest in directing a sequel in June of 2020, right around the time a…
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Monster review – Kelvin Harrison Jr anchors wrenching Netflix drama
Another standout performance from the young actor lifts a sturdy, if at times uneven, tale of a teen unknowingly caught up in a crimeAlthough it screened back at the 2018 Sundance film festival, stark Harlem-set drama Monster about a black teen swallowed up by a cruel legal system, remains just as timely in 2021, a…
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‘Raya And The Last Dragon’: Disney Offers A New Super Bowl Look At Their Animated Adventure
Restore peace. Find the last dragon. There’s a pretty simple concept to Disney’s “Raya And The Last Dragon.” An animated action-adventure fantasy, ‘Raya’ is directed by the interesting team of indie filmmaker Carlos López Estrada, known for “Blindspotting” and Don Hall for co-directing “Winnie the Pooh” (2011) and a very lengthy animated feature career.ReadMore: The…