Month: January 2023

And that’s just one example of racism in tattooing that happened behind closed doors; some artists have expressed their negative thoughts about this topic very publicly, too. On the reality competition series Ink Master, for example, contestants have been called out for their complaints of having to tattoo deep skin tones. But, according to Rodriguez,
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Day 2 of Sundance is in full swing with Director Qasim Basir in attendance at the premiere for To Live and Die and Live with cast members Skye P. Marshall, Omari Hardwick, Cory Hardrict and Maryam Basir who walked the red carpet in the NEXT category of the festival’s lineup. The film follows Muhammad, portrayed
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“Bambara’s Symmetries”, the first track on Louis Siciliano’s latest release entitled Ancient Cosmic Truth, wastes little time making an impression on listeners. Siciliano’s fiery and inspired musical instincts find fertile ground in this up-tempo setting and the musicians complementing his vision are sympathetic to his creative direction. It results in one of the more stellar
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Sheila Liming’s Hanging Out: The Radical Power of Killing Time is a thoughtful manifesto on the inherently subversive and joyous act of socializing. In seven chapters about different types of hanging out (“Dinner Parties as Hanging Out,” “Hanging Out on the Job,” etc.), Liming explores the fading art of leisure and its cultural roots. Liming
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Sony Pictures Classics present Florian Zeller’s The Son on 554 screens, an emotional family drama that folllows the director’s 2020 Oscar-winning The Father. As with that film, The Son is adapted from Zeller’s own stage play along with Christopher Hampton. Hugh Jackman, Laura Dern, Vanessa Kirby, Zen McGrath and Anthony Hopkins star in the cautionary tale of a
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Don Lewis‘ family says they’re being re-traumatized simply because someone just discovered a nearly 18-month-old, unproven report claiming Carole Baskin‘s missing first husband is alive and chillin’ on a beach. Jack Smith, spokesperson for the Lewis family, tells TMZ … Don’s daughters firmly believe he’s dead, and it’s been extremely triggering for them to deal
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Everybody has a Willie Nelson story, including Willie Nelson himself. “We really opened ourselves to have somewhat of a nonlinear story so that we gave ourselves the opportunities, and five hours give you that chance to kind of go on tangents and come back into the story, skip back,” Willie Nelson & Family co-director Oren
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I love the title of Oscar-winning An Inconvenient Truth documentarian Davis Guggenheim’s wonderful new docu on the life and times of Michael J. Fox. It is called Still a Michael J. Fox Movie. The Sundance website has a colon where you might expect it to be, right after Still, but the press notes leave it
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Right-wing politicians got the new legislative year off to an impressive start with several new bills across the country directly targeting books, reading, and intellectual freedom. Of course, we know that these bills aren’t about the books at all, but instead are another avenue to chip away at the rights of marginalized populations: people of
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Controversial actor Shia LaBeouf has landed his next project following his alleged dismissal from Olivia Wilde’s Don’t Worry Darling. The 36-year-old Honey Boy actor was spotted completely unrecognizable in Greek goddess drag on the set of Francis Ford Coppola’s longtime passion project Megalopolis. While the actor seems to be enjoying himself strutting on set, if
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Dennis Quaid is joining Taylor Sheridan’s Yellowstone Universe with a role in the 1883 spinoff Bass Reeves. Quaid is set to play Sherrill Lynn, a Deputy U.S. Marshal in the new series, Variety reports. He stars opposite David Oyelowo, who will take on the titular role of Bass Reeves. “Known as the greatest frontier hero
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