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A mixed bag of filmmaker inclusion
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It’s been a great year for black American cinema, as evidenced by the Golden Globes nominations which include Black Panther, BlacKkKlansman, and If Beale Street Could Talk for Best Picture. (Sorry to Bother You is too weird for award shows, but let us not forget it is one of the best films of the year. Full Story
Kerry & Nnamdi for Beale Street
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I saw If Beale Street Could Talk at TIFF. It crushed me. Love is HARD. Love is often sold to us as easy, too easy. “Love is all you need.” If only that could be the truth. But while love is complicated at the best of times, as Kathleen often says, borrowing a quote from Vulture’s Dee Lockett Full Story
TIFF REVIEW: If Beale Street Could Talk
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Prepare to be frustrated and heartbroken. Barry Jenkins’ adaptation of James Baldwin’s novel If Beale Street Could Talk is a beautiful, melancholy, infuriating meditation on race in America. Full Story
Barry Jenkins & Julianne Moore at the MET: Best Oscar Victory Lap
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You win an Oscar, and everybody knows your film Moonlight for all the wrong reasons. Now what? Well, your cast becomes the latest faces of Calvin Klein's underwear campaign Full Story
Dear Gossips,
Have you seen the photo yet of the reaction from the audience at the Oscars when they realised that the Best Picture announcement got f-cked up? This photo sums up the #Oscars Read Full Intro