“Soul,” “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” “Promising Young Woman,” and “The Trial of the Chicago 7” were the big film winners Sunday at the 11th annual Guild of Music Supervisors Awards.“Soul” took best supervision for a film budgeted over $25 million, “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” for under $25 million, “Promising Young Woman” for under $10 million, […]
Continue readingIf you’ve been hoping to get more stories from Ben Sinclair’s The Guy and his life in New York City as presented through HBO’s “High Maintenance” we hate to be the bearers of bad news. The show, which finished its fourth season in April of 2020, won’t be coming back for a fifth.HBO confirmed as […]
Continue readingIssa Rae‘s Emmy-winning series is coming to an end. Insecure, which Rae created and stars in, is set to conclude with its upcoming fifth season on HBO, set to air sometime later this year. HBO announced that the upcoming fifth season of Insecure will be its last season. Amy Gravitt, Executive Vice President of HBO […]
Continue readingHosted by comedian and “Insecure” creator and star Issa Rae, the third episode of Season 46 of “Saturday Night Live” kicked off with the return of Jim Carrey as former Vice President and Presidential Democratic nominee Joe Biden for the third time this season. Carrey was also joined by Alec Baldwin, reprising his long-running term […]
Continue readingShows such as I May Destroy You, Atlanta and Insecure depict a wide spectrum of black life, from hilarity to mundanity – but all these shows, at times, also have an impending sense of doom. This feeling of horror, this looming sense of dread, is intentional, but it plays on the common tropes we’ve been […]
Continue readingThe woman behind cult HBO comedy Insecure has been making and starring in her own series for years. What took Hollywood so long to notice?Issa Rae, one of the first black women to create and star in a premium cable series and potentially the hardest-working person in Hollywood, is putting in overtime with the aim […]
Continue readingLarry Wilmore is one of our best comedy voices we’ve got. The acclaimed writer/producer/performer has been an integral voice to influential works like The Bernie Mac Show, The Daily Show, Insecure, Black-ish, and of course, The Office. I’m excited Wilmore will be heading back in front of TV cameras on a regular basis (Rip The […]
Continue readingAcclaimed filmmaker Jordan Peele is teaming up with “Insecure” creator and star Issa Rae for “Sinkhole,” an upcoming film from Universal Pictures that will tackle questions of female perfection and identity.Deadline reported that Universal beat out more than 10 studio bidders and multiple talent and filmmaker packages for screen rights in what amounted to a […]
Continue reading“I don’t fuck with Molly anymore.” Those are the first words said by Issa Dee, played by co-creator and star Issa Rae, in the beginning of Season 4 of HBO’s “Insecure.” She’s talking, of course, about her best friend Molly (Yvonne Orji), one half of an inseparable pair that goes way back. If you’ve kept […]
Continue readingHBO’s groundbreaking comedy series “Insecure” is but two weeks shy of its Season 4 premiere date — kicking off a run of episodes among the series’ strongest ever — as Issa (Issa Rae) tries to establish a shaky friendship with her ex-boyfriend Lawrence’s (Jay Ellis) new boo, and comes to an uncomfortable crossroads with her […]
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