Category Archives: film
Asante Sana, Lou Gossett Jr., 87
“X-Men ’97” Official Trailer
I remember so clearly when this was “sneak-peek”ed in the fall 1992. It feels like a lifetime ago: I had just started grad school. It was on #FoxKids, home of #BatmanTheAnimatedSeries. I hadn’t read a X-Men comic since 1985 so I didn’t know half the team’s members. I quickly learned and for much of the ’90s dopamine instantly flooded my insides whenever I heard the words, “Previously, on ‘X-Men’….” So, #MarvelEntertainment #MarvelEnterprises, please air these *in order* this time? An advance THANKS!
MARCH 25th UPDATE: WOW, WOW, WOW! What a debut!
Finally! Fantastic Four Cast!

Best Valentine’s Day EVER 🙂
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Marvel Studios announced the cast for The Fantastic Four on Valentine’s Day, 2024, with a Valentine’s Day-themed art on Instagram:
Pedro Pascal: Plays Reed Richards/Mr. Fantastic
Vanessa Kirby: Plays Sue Storm
Ebon Moss-Bachrach: Plays Ben Grimm
Joseph Quinn: Plays Johnny Storm
FEBRUARY 22 UPDATE: This FF-oriented image was used for this article on Marvel’s attempt to fix itself.

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Happy Valentine’s Day 2024!
Back to a time when, as Dr. Jared Ball said to me on Black Power Media last year, “we thought we were happier. ” 🙂
Watching This Spike Lee Doc While Waiting For That New “Thriller 40” Film To Drop This Saturday
It’s Hard Waiting For Tomorrow…..
….but it is coming!
NOVEMBER 27th UPDATE:
re: New “Doctor Who” Trailer: There Are No Words…..!!!!!! :)
My Two Cents On The Two Percent :)
It’s easy to say that the white right-wing is using these Asian kids (and it is), but the (often-disturbing) doc whose trailer I linked to above slants otherwise in terms of how they think. As someone who watched Try Harder, it does make sense that the young man in the CNBC video wants to become an anti-affirmative action civil rights lawyer–a Bizzaro-world Sherilynn Ifill!–to defend his people so that elite society will accept even more of them, which is what this is really about. I have to assume he celebrated yesterday.
Buffer group or not, does the fact that these young people of color believe only 15 to 20 colleges in the United States matter something that should be discussed? I wish I could say these young Asian-Americans are wrong but when you look at everything from the leadership of tech companies to the Supreme Court itself they are clearly assessing America’s increased stratification.
Interesting That These Rich, Famous Network Anchors/Hosts…..



…..have openly demoted themselves to special correspondents. I’d like to think it’s a public commentary on the limitations of network anchoring and a true hunger to produce 20th-century, middlebrow magazine-like narrative–and those professional aspects might play a part. But hearing these goodbyes, it really sounds more like the intimate results of a work-life balance self-inventory, a real understanding that they are in a post-COVID/pre-old-age-illness vortex. (I mean, even Amy Goodman–who used to helm Democracy Now! no matter how sick she got!–actually took a day off last week to be part of a relative’s graduation.) In Chuck’s case, it’s almost like someone in his family told him, “You’re missing it.” Well, now he, Judy and Rachel won’t.
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