Ruby Dee once said, “The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within — strength, courage, dignity.” The groundbreaking actress, who died Wednesday in New Rochelle, N.Y. at the age of 91, achieved that goal time and again throughout her career, which spanned over 60 years. Dee’s daughter, Nora Davis […]
By now, you’ve probably heard that there are a number of highly-bankable intellectual properties (Avengers, Star Wars, Jurassic Park, Mission: Impossible, James Bond, Terminator – keep in mind, that’s not even the entire iceberg) scheduled to have new installments in theaters during 2015; a handful of original properties – released within the past couple years – are going to be “franchised” next year as well. […]
Brian Cox is the latest addition to the cast of Pixels, the big-budget adventure movie starring Adam Sandler as an aging video game champion enlisted to defend the world against an alien invasion. The Scottish actor, 68, is best known to American audiences for his subtle and intense character work in a wide array of films including 2011′s Rise of […]
“Through chance and coincidence, infinitely small decisions can produce new life.” Director Kevin Lim’s Lichen is an ode, not to a Grecian Urn, but to the smallest, most seemingly-innocuous items that make up a relationship: an egg; a champagne cork; Lego Batman (yes, you read that right). To the outsider, these everyday, mundane trinkets mean next-to-nothing, but […]
Platco Digital’s OpenView HD (OVHD) free-to-air satellite TV platform added a new music channel, Beatlab.tv on channel 500. Beatlab.tv went live at 18:00 on Friday evening and will broadcast from 18:00 until 22:00 every night with a four hour block of programming which gets repeated from 22:00. Beatlab.tv is dedicated to South African urban youth culture […]
Dave Chappelle is finally opening up about the abrupt ending of Chappelle’s Show, his hit Comedy Central series that he infamously walked away from in 2005. The comedian stopped by Late Show with David Letterman on Tuesday night, where he opened up about leaving Chappelle’s Show midway through its third season. “Listen, here it is. Technically, I never quit. I’m seven […]
After a 3-D re-release and 2½ sequels, Disney is expanding the Lion King universe yet again with The Lion Guard. The new television franchise will launch with a TV movie premiering in fall 2015; a series will follow in early 2016 on Disney Channel and Disney Junior. The show will follow Kion, the second-born son of Simba and Nala (stars of the previous Lion King movies), […]
With the E3 currently in full-swing, the internet has been overflowing with gaming news. And in the deluge of new title announcements and next-gen platform exclusives, one classic video game hero is getting some extra attention: Sonic the Hedgehog. Sonic first burst onto the Sega Genesis in 1991 and became an immediate smash-hit. Developed initially as a mascot […]
As anticipated, Sigourney Weaver will return for the three Avatar sequels scheduled to start production later this year. In an announcement Monday, James Cameron explained that Weaver will return in a new role since her original character, Dr. Grace Augustine, died in the first film. “Sigourney and I have a long creative history, dating back to 1985 when we […]
There is no way of knowing when a TV show will run out of road or if they will try to navigate over gravel and broken glass long after that point, refusing to wrap things up before people start forgetting why they loved those shows in the first place. The Walking Dead isn’t necessarily kicking up […]
