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Marvel’s <i>Black Panther</i> Is a Blockbuster Fit for a King

Marvel’s Black Panther Is a Blockbuster Fit for a King

Aimee Murillo

February 16, 2018 Leave a Comment

The amount of hype surrounding the release of the latest Marvel superhero film has reached levels not seen for blockbuster films in years. So I won’t bury the lede here: Black Panther is definitely worth all the praise it has received so far—and then some. Much of what makes the film a success can be […]

Filed Under: Film, Film and TV, Newsletter - Arts, Newsletter - Film, Newsletter - Film - Lead, Newsletter Edit Tagged With: Black Panther, Chadwick Boseman, Jack Kirby, Joe Robert Cole, Lupita Nyong'o, Marvel, Michael B. Jordan, Ryan Coogler, Stan Lee

Fruitvale Station Makes a Man of a Martyr

Fruitvale Station Makes a Man of a Martyr

Stephanie Zacharek

July 11, 2013 Leave a Comment

In the early hours of New Year's Day 2009, on a platform of Oakland's Fruitvale Bay Area Rapid Transit Station, a young man named Oscar Grant III was shot in the back by a BART transit officer. The officer later claimed he meant to reach for his Taser and not his revolver, but his mistake […]

Filed Under: Film Tagged With: Michael B. Jordan, Oscar Grant, Ryan Coogler, San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District

Sundance 2013: America's Black Indie Film Renaissance

Scott Foundas

January 17, 2013 Leave a Comment

You could hear a pin drop during the first Sundance screening of writer-director Ryan Coogler's Fruitvale, an enormously powerful and moving debut feature based on the shooting death of 22-year-old Oscar Grant by Oakland transit police in the early hours of New Year's Day, 2009. Coogler opens the film–one of the standouts of this year's […]

Filed Under: Film Tagged With: Oscar Grant, Ryan Coogler, Sundance Film Festival, The Walt Disney Company

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