‘I’m A Virgo’ TV Review: Originality Stands Tall In Boots Riley’s Small Screen Debut

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Lupita Nyong’o and Kendrick Lamar pose for photos together while attending the Chanel Haute Couture Fall/Winter 2023/2024 show during Paris Fashion Week on Tuesday (July 4) in Paris, France.

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Arnold Schwarzenegger wanted a bloodier and deadlier Terminator 2: Judgment Day but James Cameron shot him down.

“The Last Action Heroes: The Triumphs, Flops, and Feuds of Hollywood’s Kings of Carnage” (Crown, out now).The mishap left a slight droop on the left side of his face, and caused the trademark speech impediment the actor would later compare to the “guttural echoing of a mafioso pallbearer.”Stallone was taunted at school with nicknames like “Slant Mouth,” “Sylvia” and “Mr. Potato Head,” and later told reporters that his speech and appearance had left him “like a poster boy for a nightmare.”Life wasn’t made easier by a physically abusive father who beat him and his brother Frank Jr.

Sylvester Stallone has given fans a fun look at his family life in his new reality series,, but the legendary actor is taking a more somber look back at his career and legacy in an upcoming Netflix documentary, simply titled .The streaming service shared the first teaser for the upcoming doc, from director Thom Zimny, on Friday, giving intimate insight into the action icon's private life and personal musings.«Hell yeah, I have regrets,» Stallone says in voiceover. «What is healthier: to live under the illusion that you could have been great, or actually have an opportunity to be great and then you blow it?»«Filmmaking comes at a great price,» he adds, over shots with wife Jennifer Flavin and their daughters, Sistine, Scarlet and Sophia.

Sylvester Stallone is getting his own Netflix documentary. The project is called “Sly” and will be a retropective on his career, exploring his youth, his beginnings, and the films that made him into a historic action star and one of Hollywood’s biggest icons. Adele had one demand when buying Sylvester Stallone’s houseSylvester Stallone’s daughters reveal he makes dating ‘impossible’Sylvester Stallone details first time meeting Jennifer Flavin: ‘We were inseparable’A post shared by Sly Stallone (@officialslystallone)Stallone shared the news on his social media.

Angelique Jackson Sylvester Stallone’s life and career is getting the retrospective treatment courtesy of the Netflix documentary “Sly,” which chronicles the highs and lows of his near 50-year Hollywood career. “Do I have regrets?” Stallone asks in a teaser that dropped on Friday. “Hell yeah, I have regrets.” “Sly” is directed by Thom Zimny (“Springsteen on Broadway”) and produced by Sean Stuart, with the documentary to begin streaming in November. The official logline explains what’s to come: “For nearly 50 years, Sylvester Stallone has entertained millions with iconic characters and blockbuster franchises, from ‘Rocky’ to ‘Rambo’ to ‘The Expendables.’ This retrospective documentary offers an intimate look at the Oscar-nominated actor-writer-director-producer, paralleling his inspirational underdog-story with the indelible characters he has brought to life.”

Sylvester Stallone is an interesting figure if you think of the totality of his career. Sure, the easy version is the guy who was an action star for decades and appeared in movies that essentially blew things up or solved all problems with a punch to the face.

Megan Thee Stallion has shown her fans a glimpse of her daily life – and workout routine – as well as revealing that she “can’t drop new music right now”.The Houston rapper hasn’t been in the limelight much of late, following her extensive world tour last year.Then on Saturday (June 24), Megan posted a day-in-the-life style video, discussing her fitness journey from the gym with her new trainer.“Bitch, since the last time y’all seen me, I learned to do a motherfucking pull-up,” she narrated at lightning speed. “OK, so anyways, I can’t drop music right now but, bitch, I might as well drop a little workout routine.”A post shared by Megan Thee Stallion (@theestallion)In the rest of the video, she spoke about getting her dancers prepped for their Essence Festival performance, buying a Halloween-themed Birkin, and watching Pharrell Williams’ debut show as Louis Vuitton’s Menswear creative director.Last month, Megan Thee Stallion spoke to InStyle Magazine about new material – telling the publication that “fans can expect new music when [she’s] in a better place.” Back in April, Megan penned an article for Elle about her career and the “trauma” she experienced while going through the legal issues of recent years.

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Selome Hailu At the end of Boots Riley’s 2018 debut feature, “Sorry to Bother You,” Cassius (LaKeith Stanfield) gets stretched and mutilated beyond recognition until he becomes a horse — all in service of the film’s cutting narrative about how capitalism is crushing us all. In “I’m a Virgo,” Riley’s new Amazon Prime Video series, that stretching comes before the story begins: 19-year-old Cootie (Jharrel Jerome) is 13 feet tall, and he ends up under attack when the city of Oakland learns about the giant living in its backyard — again, all in service of a cutting narrative about how capitalism is crushing us all. “I believe that people should democratically control the wealth that we create with our labor,” says Riley, 52. The writer-director has identified as a communist since before he gained recognition for founding the political hip-hop group the Coup in 1991. “How do you get the working class to organize together? Through them understanding where their power is, and under capitalism, our power is in the withholding of labor. There needs to be a mass, militant, radical labor movement that turns more radical as it goes on, until the people actually take over the places that they work and change the nature of society.”

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“Atlanta” to Terence Nance’s thought-provoking “Random Acts of Flyness” and Jordan Peele’s critically acclaimed films “Get Out” and “Nope,” this formerly niche genre seems to be thriving in mainstream entertainment.Writer, producer and musician Boots Riley, whose 2018 film “Sorry to Bother You” catapulted him to prominence as a filmmaker, returns with his latest project: “I’m A Virgo” on Prime Video. This highly anticipated series solidifies his position among the pioneers of the Afro-surrealist genre.Afrofuturism and Afro-surrealism, often seen as interchangeable, are different.

Sylvester Stallone put himself through an intense diet and exercise routine ahead of filming "Rocky III" in the 1980s. Stallone recalled what he ate and drank to keep his body fat down to 2.8% as he prepared to portray Rocky Balboa fighting James "Clubber" Lang, played by Mr.T. "My entire breakfast would be maybe two [small] oatmeal cookies made with brown rice and 10 cups of coffee because I wanted to keep my body fat down to 2.8 percent," Stallone told The Wall Street Journal.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV Critic “Sorry to Bother You,” Boots Riley’s 2018 directorial debut, was a cultural event: It announced Riley, who’d already made a career as a politically minded rapper, as a sharp critic of contemporary capitalism who could pair his ideas with grabby, memorable imagery. The cascade of reveals and visual transformations toward the end of that film, too good to spoil for the uninitiated, worked brilliantly as spectacle and made Riley’s case too: Under our current system, we all end up becoming beasts of burden.  Riley returns with a larger canvas and new expressions of familiar concerns with “I’m a Virgo.” Like “Sorry to Bother You,” which addressed the problems of its telemarketer characters, this series merges the prosaic with the surreal. On “I’m a Virgo,” we follow a 13-foot-tall man trying to figure out where he fits into his community and into the ongoing struggle for a fairer future. As played by Jharrel Jerome (of “Moonlight” and an Emmy winner for “When They See Us”), the massive fellow known as Cootie is taciturn, shy — understandably out of place. To work out, he bench-presses an entire car; his aunt and uncle (Mike Epps and Carmen Ejogo), raising him in their Oakland home despite being people of more typical stature, fret over how much food it takes to keep their nephew alive.

Sylvester Stallone has revealed that Adele was so intent on keeping the acting star’s Rocky statue when buying his home, that she was willing to walk away from the deal altogether.The British singer bought the actor’s Los Angeles mansion last year for a reported $58million (£45million), which features a statue of Stallone’s iconic character from the boxing franchise overlooking the pool.In a new interview with The Wall Street Journal, Stallone revealed that he originally wanted to take the statue with him when he moved.But the ‘Easy On Me’ singer apparently told Stallone: “That’s a no deal. That’s gonna blow the whole deal.”The actor eventually let the singer keep the statue, sharing: “I like what she’s doing, she’s making it gorgeous.”Adele is now completely renovating the LA house, according to TMZ.Stallone created and starred in the 1976 film Rocky, which was followed by six more instalments: Rocky II (1979), Rocky III (1982), Rocky IV (1985), Rocky V (1990), and Rocky Balboa (2006).

The WGA Strong March and Rally for a Fair Contract has kicked off in LA with thousands of members of the guild including Damon Lindelof and Boots Riley taking to the parks and streets.

Before Adele purchased Sylvester Stallone’s Los Angeles mansion last year, she had one stipulation — the Rocky statue must stay.