'Black Is King': Film Review

Ryan Reynolds always knows how to turn things into joke.On August 17, it was revealed that the 43-year-old actor sold the liquor company he co-owns, Aviation Gin, for a whopping $610 million. According to reports from Bloomberg, Diageo Plc acquired Aviation American Gin and other liquors sold by Davos Brands LLC, which obviously puts a pretty penny right in Ryan‘s pocket.

Ryan Reynolds wrote a hilarious out-of-office message referencing his wife, Blake Lively, and other celebrity friends after selling his liquor company.Bloomberg reported on Monday, August 17, that Diageo acquired Aviation American Gin, which the 43-year-old actor co-owns, and other Davos Brands liquors for a whopping $610 million.After the news broke, Reynolds wrote a snarky email noting that while he is “currently out of the office,” he “will still be very hard at work selling Aviation Gin.

Zach King, 30, is one of the most influential TikTokers with over 45 million followers on the popular social media platform. But the illusionist, who gained popularity with his magic 6-second Vine videos, says the US ban on TikTok “could potentially hurt” many creators just getting started.

In the summer of 1989, less than two months after the release of Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing, a dramatization of racial tensions between Black and Italian Americans in Brooklyn, Yusuf Hawkins was shot to death for being a Black boy in a white neighborhood just a few miles from the film's Bedford-Stuyvesant setting. Sixteen years old, Hawkins was the victim of an impromptu mob in Bensonhurst that had gathered to attack another Black youth rumored to be dating an Italian-American girl.

In a world where Black Lives Matter protests are still happening in the streets of some of the biggest cities in the US, now is probably the perfect time for Hulu to release the upcoming comedy series, “Woke.” READ MORE: ‘Mangrove’ Trailer: Steve McQueen’s Latest Features Letitia Wright In His ‘Small Axe’ Anthology Movie As seen in the trailer for “Woke,” the show follows the story of a Black artist, Keef, who has made a name for himself as a cartoonist that always tries to “keep things light”

Hanna Flint Guest Contributor“Judas and the Black Messiah” writer and director Shaka King has defended the casting of Daniel Kaluuya in the role of American civil rights leader Fred Hampton.The historical biopic, produced by Ryan Coogler and endorsed by Hampton’s son, Fred Hampton Jr, positions the British actor as the iconic leader of the Black Panther Party with Lakeith Stanfield playing the lesser-known William O’Neal, the FBI informant who infiltrated the political group and fed intel to

Also Read: 'An American Pickle': Seth Rogen Falls Into a Vat of Pickles and Meets His Own Great-Grandson in HBO Max Trailer (Video)It opens in 1919, in black and white and in the fictional Eastern European country of Schlupsk, where Herschel Greenbaum is a ditch digger whose shovel keeps breaking and whose wildest dream is to one day be able to afford seltzer water.

Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds have had to wrestle with a difficult question: Why, when the couple got married in 2012, did they choose to do on the grounds of place inextricably linked to slavery, to the point that its website boasts it was once named the “#1 Plantation in the Charleston Area” by USA Today? Eight years later, Reynolds finally has an answer: They saw the venue on Pinterest.

Also Read: Brad Pitt Joins David Leitch's 'Bullet Train' for SonyKing is in talks for the teenaged assassin named Prince, while Pitt will play an American hitman named Ladybug.Last month, King signed a first-look deal with Hulu.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic“An American Pickle” is a comedy that connects you to something so old world that it seems, at times, to be an artifact of prehistory.

Early Friday morning (July 31), fans joyously unwrapped Beyoncé’s visual album Black Is King on Disney+. Designed to be a re-imagination of the 2019 film The Lion King, Queen Bey looks to recreate the Black experience, mainly for young African American boys and girls on the project.

William Earl administratorIn one extended sequence of the 2017 documentary “Angry, White, and American,” Black British journalist Gary Younge faces off with alt-right leader Richard Spencer, who, at one point, says, “Look at the life of any African American living in the United States. It’s far better than any African living in Africa.”Translation: Slavery was good.

Early Friday morning (July 31), fans joyously unwrapped Beyoncé’s visual album Black Is King on Disney +. Designed to be a reimagination of the 2019 film The Lion King, Queen Bey looks to recreate the Black experience, mainly for young African American boys and girls on the project. Studded with an army of talented dancers, actors and famous guest stars, Beyoncé’s passion project is a crystal-clear illumination of the importance of Black pride and excellence.

Also Read: 'The French Dispatch,' 'Soul' Make the Cannes 2020 Lineup As Festival Reveals the Movies It Would Have ShownAs previously announced, Spike Lee’s film “David Byrne’s American Utopia,” a document of Byrne’s Broadway show, will be the opening-night film on Sept. 10.

There's a fascinating juxtaposition in Shalini Kantayya's cautionary documentary Coded Bias. The engaging principal guide in this journey through our 21st century algorithmic hellscape is Joy Buolamwini, a young African American MIT Media Lab researcher who discovered that most facial recognition software is wildly inaccurate when it comes to darker-skinned faces and those of women.

Rob Kardashian’s ex Blac Chyna just broke her silence on Kanye West’s mental breakdown and she has a few thoughts about Kanye’s mother-in-law Kris Jenner. The American model released a statement on Kanye West extending her support for the rapper.

Ryan Reynolds has the quirkiest ways to promote his gin brand. With every advertisement, he blows our minds and leaves us in splits.

At a moment when Americans and their institutions are acknowledging the consequences of long-held racist assumptions and policies, Khadifa Wong's Uprooted couldn't be more timely.