Tag: Glory
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Solo Review: A Dazzling Celebration Of Drag [TIFF 2023]
The art of drag provides the opportunity to find yourself. That may sound odd considering the objective is typically to make yourself look like somebody else, but that transformation has a magical way of discovering something within yourself you never ever knew was there. Few films understand the power of drag like Sophie Dupuis’s “Solo,”…
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‘The Equalizer 3’ Review – Denzel Washington Goes Out With a Bang
This review was written during the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Without the labor of the writers and actors currently on strike, the film being covered here wouldn’t exist.There’s a good argument to be made that Denzel Washington is the greatest actor working in the industry today. He’s a two-time Oscar winner, renowned by almost…
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‘It Was a Disaster’: Julia Roberts Quit ‘Shakespeare in Love’ After Awful Chemistry Reads and Cost the Studio $6 Million, Says Producer Ed Zwick
Gwyneth Paltrow won the Oscar for best actress thanks to her role in “Shakespeare in Love,” but it was Julia Roberts who was originally courted for the role of Viola de Lesseps. Producer Edward Zwick recently published a first-person essay for Air Mail about the the making of “Shakespeare in Love.” The director behind “Glory”…
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Why Denzel Washington’s Role in Training Day Is Important for Black Actors
It’s been over 20 years and Training Day remains one of the benchmark roles for Black actors. Directed by Antoine Fuqua, the 2001 film follows rookie Jake Hoyt (Ethan Hawke) on his first day with the LAPD’s tough inner-city narcotics unit. The morals of the rookie cop will come into play the longer he follows…
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Maria Bakalova to Produce and Star in Her First Bulgarian Movie Post-‘Borat’
Oscar nominee Maria Bakalova is returning to Bulgaria for a dark comedy based on wildly true events.The “Borat 2” and “Bodies Bodies Bodies” actress is set to star in and produce “Triumph,” inspired by the aftermath of the fall of Communism in the 1990s when Bulgarian army officials teamed up with psychics to find a…
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How Denzel Washington Inspired Killmonger’s Black Panther Appearance
In “Black Panther,” Michael B. Jordan’s Killmonger has a torso covered in scars, with each one representing a life he’s taken. Brought to life with almost 90 silicone molds according to the movie’s press kit, they’re a very real and physical equivalent of figurative notches on an assassin’s belt. Killmonger is a bad dude who has nonetheless…
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‘Glory’ at 30: Denzel Washington’s 1989 Breakout Film is Still the Best Civil War Movie Ever Made
Within the war movie genre, the American Civil War hasn’t beget as many classics as World War II or Vietnam. One indisputable classic, however, is Glory, the powerful 1989 film based on a true story about one of the first all-black volunteer regiments in the Union Army. Denzel Washington won his first Oscar for this…
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Karlovy Vary Film Review: ‘The Father’
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade, the sunny proverb goes. But what if life gives you inedibly sour quinces instead? The father-son odd-couple road trip comedy gets an appealingly deadpan, Bulgarian makeover in Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov’s third feature, a film that takes the bittersweet fruits of its funny, sad, silly situations, and…
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‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ Sound Mixer Gregg Rudloff Dies at 63
Gregg Rudloff, who won Academy Awards for sound mixing “Mad Max: Fury Road,” “The Matrix,” and “Glory” and was nominated four other times, died in Los Angeles on Jan. 6. He was 63.A representative for the Los Angeles County Coroner’s office told Variety that the office is treating his death as a possible suicide with…