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The drama around the potential sale of Warner Bros. Discovery has taken another turn, as a new report claims that online movie and TV giant Netflix is actively exploring bidding on the company.That’s according to Reuters, which states according to “three sources familiar with the matter … the video streaming service has hired Moelis & Co, the investment bank that advised Skydance Media on its successful bid for Paramount Global, to evaluate a prospective offer, two of the sources said. Netflix also has been granted access to the data room, which contains the financial details needed to make a bid, according to…

Perhaps the last time that Ryan Reynolds worked with an ensemble cast, the movie Life debuted in theaters only a year after he’d struck gold with the first Deadpool. Reynolds had been struggling to break into the A-list for several years prior to Deadpool’s unprecedented success, and he has worked almost exclusively in franchise-oriented films since then. In many ways, Life marked the end of an era. Modeled closely on Ridley Scott’s classic Alien, the movie featured a bunch of characters trapped aboard a spaceship with a mysterious creature hunting them down. Life didn’t exactly set the box office on…

Finishing a fantasy television series has become almost as mythical as the stories themselves. Big ideas get greenlit, worlds expand faster than budgets can handle; for whatever reason, many fantasy shows get canceled too soon. That’s exactly why the shows that actually make it to a true finale stand apart, because in this genre there aren’t many of them, especially not today. Each one finds closure without losing the imagination that defined it, proving that fantasy doesn’t have to collapse under its own scale. These finales stick because they honor the characters first, wrapping up their journeys that were promising…

It was the Brooklyn-born, Bronx-raised, and Harlem-championing photojournalist Kwame Brathwaite who came to popularise the phrase ​“Black is Beautiful,” which grew into the cultural movement that would unapologetically embrace and celebrate Blackness, especially honouring the beauty of darker-skinned individuals. Originally born Gilbert Ronald Brathwaite, the photographer later chose to rename himself ​‘Kwame’ in honour of Kwame Nkrumah, the first Prime Minister and President of Ghana after its liberation from British colonial rule.Men often don’t get their flowers until their death, though this statement proves itself most true in the case of Black men, and in the case of the African-American photographer who…

COBRAH  (Clara Blom Christiensen) is a Swedish singer, producer, and performance artist whose self-styled “BDSM pop” and “gay workout music” have made her one of the boldest voices in electronic and queer music today. Born in Gothenburg  in 1996, COBRAH fuses industrial beats, fetish aesthetics, and unapologetic sexuality into a high-voltage artistic statement. A shapeshifter by nature, she blurs the lines between club culture, performance art, and pure pop provocation. Her career began with…

Some horror franchises fall into repetition, producing the same movie — or at least the same tone — over and over again. But a rare few manage to reinvent themselves so successfully through creative sequels that they redefine both their own legacy and the genre itself.Take 1986’s Aliens, for example. James Cameron took Ridley Scott’s terrifying 1979 masterpiece and evolved it into an adrenaline-charged action-horror hybrid. By upping the scale, intensity, and emotional stakes through Ripley’s maternal bond with Newt, Cameron not only expanded the Alien lore outside of the Nostromo, but also set a new standard for sci-fi.Similarly, 1994’s…

The following article contains spoilers. Over the course of television history, we have been treated to some iconic couples that have put their stamp on the medium. From Lucy and Ricky Ricardo of I Love Lucy to Homer and Marge Simpson of The Simpsons, we have had a litany of couples that we have rooted for week after week, and can all agree that they were always meant for each other. Then there are the couples that are so divisive, we still argue about them to this day. Whether it’s a questionable age gap between two star-crossed lovers or the…

Jeremy Allen White becomes Wolverine in exciting Marvel Cinematic Universe art, which clashes with his comments about joining the franchise. Given the success of The Bear, White has become one of Hollywood’s most popular talents over the past few years. The show has led to multiple award nominations and wins for its lead star. Rumors of joining the MCU’s slate soon started. As has become normal since the franchise established itself, rising stars like White soon find their names in fancasting conversations for different roles within the MCU machine. Out of all the choices, Wolverine in the MCU X-Men movie,…

In a landscape of historical subversions and reinterpretations, Palestine 36 tells the story straight. Before revolution brings violent coherence as writer-director Annemarie Jacir’s cast of all-too-familiar archetypes juggle developments in Palestine over the course of 1936. There’s the introspective youth Yusuf (Karim Daoud Anaya), who moves from Palestinian villages ravaged by unhinged military man Captain Wingate (Robert Aramayo), and the quarrelling couple Khouloud and Amir (Yasmine Al Massri and Dhafer L’Abidine), who run a newspaper. The sympathetic but naïve diplomat Thomas (Billy Howle), gives up his pretence of relevance and checks himself out early.A subtle execution tends to pick up where originality fails.…

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