Tag: Da 5 Bloods
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Chadwick Boseman Tributes: Jordan Peele, Joe Biden, Lena Waithe, Mark Ruffalo, and More Honor Late Actor
Tributes to the late Chadwick Boseman are pouring in across social media from Hollywood actors, directors, writers, and more. Boseman’s family confirmed August 28 the actor died at age 43 after a four-year battle with colon cancer. Boseman is best remembered for his iconic role as T’Challa in Ryan Coogler’s Marvel movie “Black Panther,” and…
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Oscars 2021: Early Best Actor Predictions
Pandemic or no pandemic, the show must go on, and so the Oscars will be held two months late, on April 25, 2021. Back in January 2020, Sundance launched a few movies, including “The Father” (Sony Pictures Classics), starring Oscar-winner Anthony Hopkins (“The Silence of the Lambs”), who gives a tour-de-force performance opposite Olivia Colman…
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‘Da 5 Bloods’: More People Watched ‘Space Force’ & ‘Floor Is Lava’ Than Spike Lee’s Latest, According To Netflix
When folks criticize filmmakers’ decisions to take the streaming money for their next feature or TV series, a common argument is that the project will get lost in the tidal wave of originals that are released. Basically, why make a film like “Da 5 Bloods” if it’s going to get skipped over and drowned out…
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‘Never Too Late’: Film Review
Four Vietnam vets reunite for a mission, one that will lean on their wartime exploits but also expose more than a few old tensions. No, this is not a revisit of “Da 5 Bloods” but a brief description of the genial, cliché-encumbered, Aussie comedy “Never Too Late.” Directed by Mark Lamprell, it opens in virtual…
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HBO To Release David Byrne’s ‘American Utopia,’ Directed By Spike Lee, Later This Year
Even though we’re just now coming off the release of Spike Lee’s most recent feature film, “Da 5 Bloods,” that doesn’t mean the filmmaker is taking the rest of the year off. According to HBO, Lee is already prepping the release of his latest directorial effort, “American Utopia.”Read More: ‘Da 5 Bloods’: Spike Lee Finally…
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Arthur Ashe Biopic in Development From ‘Da 5 Bloods’ Writer Kevin Willmott
A biopic on the life of tennis great Arthur Ashe is in the works from Warner Music Group and Ashok Amritraj’s Hyde Park Entertainment that will be penned by Kevin Willmott, an Oscar winner for “BlacKkKlansman” and the writer of Spike Lee’s “Da 5 Bloods,” it was announced Tuesday.Amritraj will produce for Hyde Park Entertainment…
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Da 5 Bloods review – Spike Lee goes all out in Vietnam
Four Vietnam vets reunite in a search for their fallen comrade – and some gold bullion – in Lee’s inventive, action-packed but disjointed all-star adventureLast year, Spike Lee won his first competitive Academy Award as co-writer of BlacKkKlansman, a stranger-than-fiction tale of an African-American cop infiltrating the Ku Klux Klan in the early 70s. That…
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Spike Lee Defends Woody Allen Against “This Cancel Thing” And Says “I Don’t Know If You Can Just Erase Somebody”
In today’s edition of “why are you doing talking about this?” director Spike Lee raised his hand as a Woody Allen supporter for no reason at all and called him “a friend” amidst the sexual abuse allegations that have followed Allen for decades.Read More: Alec Baldwin Defends Woody Allen Podcast & Calls Blackout Tuesday A…
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Why Spike Lee Thinks ‘Da 5 Bloods’ Is the Right Movie for the Black Lives Matter Movement
Since Spike Lee burst onto the scene in 1986, the timeliness of his movies has been the filmmaker’s calling card — with Lee assembling a body of work that meditates on world events in a way that seems almost prescient. So, with his latest joint, “Da 5 Bloods” debuting on Netflix amid a groundswell of…
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Spike Lee: ‘Race relations today are the direct result of having a black president’
Prior to the release of Da 5 Bloods, the director takes questions from readers, film-makers and politicians about George Floyd, Covid-19 and the worst thing about actorsFor more than three decades, Spike Lee has been one of the most vital forces in film-making.His latest movie, Da 5 Bloods – about four African American veterans who…