Tag: Respect
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Weird: The Al Yankovic Story Cast and Character Guide
We are living in the era of the musician biopic. We’ve seen films made on music legends like Freddie Mercury (Bohemian Rhapsody), Elton John (Rocketman), Aretha Franklin (Respect), and Elvis Presley (Elvis). On top of that, we still have a Whitney Houston film, I Wanna Dance with Somebody, dropping later this year. With so many…
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A.R. Rahman, Vijay Sethupathi Team on Zee Studios Silent Film ‘Gandhi Talks’ (Exclusive)
Vijay Sethupathi (“Vikram”), Aditi Rao Hydari (“Hey Sinamika”), Arvind Swami (“Thalaivi”) and Siddharth Jadhav (“Tamasha Live”) will star in film “Gandhi Talks.”While plot details are under wraps, the film is described as a dark comedy. A teaser for the film was released on Oct. 2, 2022, the anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi’s birth.The film will be…
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I Wanna Dance With Somebody Trailer: Naomi Ackie Looks Transformative As Whitney Houston
It’s still hard to imagine how musical biopics can exist in a post “Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story” world, but the last few years have been bursting with big-budget biopics centered on some of the most iconic performers in music history. Jennifer Hudson belted her face off as Aretha Franklin in “Respect,” Taron Egerton…
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Sherri Shepherd Shares Her Dream Guest List for New Talk Show at Aafca Awards
Sherri Shepherd wasn’t a nominee at the 13th Aafca Awards on Wednesday night, but she certainly had the look of a winner.Shepherd was on hand at the annual awards show — which celebrates the best in film each year — to present the best actress award to her “Chi-town sister” Jennifer Hudson, who the organization’s…
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How Jennifer Hudson and ‘Respect’ Could Set a Record for Black Women at the Oscars
Jennifer Hudson’s name is already written in the Academy Awards history books. At 25, she became the youngest Black woman to ever win an acting Oscar for her turn as Effie White in “Dreamgirls” (2006). She’s also the first to do it for a debut role. Her work in the Aretha Franklin biopic “Respect” has…
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Halle Berry Delivers Moving Speech During Celebration of Black Cinema: ‘Stop Letting Awards Measure Our Worth’
The Critics Choice Association held its fourth annual Celebration of Black Cinema and Television during an in-person ceremony on Monday evening at the Fairmont Century Plaza Hotel, which will be the new home to the Critics Choice Awards on Jan. 9. Hosted by Emmy winner Niecy Nash, some of the honorees included Jennifer Hudson from…
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Oscars 2022: Best Costume Design Predictions
In the race for costume design, it’s the sci-fi futurism of frontrunner “Dune” against a host of eclectic period pieces, including the upside-down fairy tale of Princess Di in “Spencer,” the spiritually-driven musical genius of Aretha Franklin in “Respect,” the subversive punk delights of “Cruella,” the journalistic nostalgia of “The French Outpost,” and the noir…
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Jennifer Hudson Is One Award Away From A Rare Egot
R-e-s-p-e-c-t: you’ve got to give it to Egot winners. Jennifer Hudson, currently starring in the Aretha Franklin biopic “Respect,” has got the Ego part down. She even has an Ego ring to prove it.Egot stands for Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony. It’s a rare bunch of artists, Renaissance women and men, who hold the distinction…
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Respect review – an overly reverential homage to Aretha
Personally approved by Franklin, Jennifer Hudson captures the queen of soul’s star power, but this biopic is too well behaved to do its extraordinary subject justiceHosting the 78th Academy Awards in 2006, Jon Stewart quipped that the Johnny Cash biopic Walk the Line was simply “Ray with white people”. The gag landed not so much…
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‘Respect’: Costume-Designing Aretha Franklin’s Defiant Spirit as the Queen of Soul
To honor Aretha Franklin (Jennifer Hudson) in director Liesl Tommy’s musical biopic “Respect,” costume designer Clint Ramos took a deep dive into the Queen of Soul’s psychology. This enabled him to understand the complex emotional, spiritual, and political forces that drove her musical genius. As a result, Ramos created an aesthetic of heightened realism and…