‘Essence’ honoree Ruth Carter’s accidental Hollywood career
By LINDSEY BAHR “Selma” costume designer Ruth E. Carter never set out to work in Hollywood. Even while living in a tiny apartment in Los Angeles’ Koreatown in the 1980s,…
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CMG February Book #2 of The Month Is Cinema Civil Rights
by Ellen C. Scott (Author) Cinema Civil Rights: Regulation, Repression, and Race in the Classical Hollywood Era From Al Jolson in blackface to Song of the South, there is a…
‘Boyhood’ tops Globes; ‘Grand Budapest’ upsets ‘Birdman’
By LINDSEY BAHR The Golden Globes inched closer to legitimacy in its 72nd show, giving awards not just to A-List celebrities, but to the edgier productions that unequivocally deserved recognition,…
Digital dilemma: How will US respond to Sony hack?
By ERIC TUCKER and TAMI ABDOLLAH The detective work blaming North Korea for the Sony hacker break-in appears so far to be largely circumstantial, The Associated Press has learned. The…
N Korea-linked Sony hack may be costliest ever
By BERNARD CONDON, ERIC TUCKER and MAE ANDERSON The unprecedented hack of Sony Pictures which a U.S. official says is linked to North Korea may be the most damaging cyberattack…
Harry Belafonte receives the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award at the 2014 Governors Awards
Harry Belafonte was this year’s recipient of the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award during the sixth annual Governors Awards on Saturday night. The honorary Oscar is Belafonte’s first, and the 87-year-old…
Flic Picks Movie Review Oldboy Directed by Spike Lee & American Hustle. Directed by David O. Russell
(Oldboy)A Douchebag and deadbeat dad, Joe Ducett is kidnapped and imprisoned for 20 years. When he’s released, vengeance is what he seeks. American Hustle. Directed by David O. Russell, starring…
Flick Picks Movie Review Riddick,300 Rise of an Empire
Riddick is on another alien infested planet, and he’s being hunted. Again.While King Leonidas led the brave 300 on land, Themistocles leads a united Greece in the Agean Sea, against…