The families of Jackie Robinson and Martin Luther King Jr. are blasting Donald Trump and his reelection campaign for a new ad in which images of the two civil rights icons are shown.
19.09.2020 - 22:03 / variety.com
Owen Gleiberman Chief Film CriticAt a moment when the personal lives of artists and celebrities are being placed under the spotlight as almost never before, the secret life of Martin Luther King Jr. now seems like more than the disquieting semi-submerged footnote it once did.
The families of Jackie Robinson and Martin Luther King Jr. are blasting Donald Trump and his reelection campaign for a new ad in which images of the two civil rights icons are shown.
Stevie Nicks has released a poignant new song that she considers a “prayer” for America during this fraught time in the nation’s history.
Stevie Nicks has shared a new single, ‘Show Them The Way’, recorded with Dave Grohl on drums and produced by Greg Kurstin.In a recent interview with Associated Press, Nicks said the song was inspired by a dream she had in 2008 where she played at a political benefit attended by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., John Lennon, John Lewis, John F.
Meghan King Edmonds revealed on Tuesday her 2-year-old son, Hart, has been diagnosed with cerebral palsy (CP). The former “Real Housewives of Orange County” star opened up in a blog post on Tuesday about finding out about his diagnosis.
Also Read: 'The Way I See It' Director Dawn Porter Says Documentary Is a Non-Subtle Critique of Donald Trump (Video)As a student of the civil rights movement, Pollard said he was aware of the FBI’s charge to bring down King and label him as “the most dangerous Negro in America, and we have to use every resource at our disposal to destroy him.” But “MLK/FBI” is the first film to delve into the extent of the FBI’s surveillance and harassment of King.
A group of NXIVM members have enlisted the help of Amanda Knox — an American woman who was convicted for a 2007 murder but ultimately exonerated — in a bid to help the group’s leader, Keith Raniere.
Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin’s amicable post-divorce relationship set the blueprint for how to maintain a friendship even after the romance fizzles out.The Goop founder met Martin in 2002 while his band, Coldplay, was on tour in Los Angeles. In April 2013, Paltrow recalled their unconventional introduction.“It’s funny because people had started writing that we were going out and we had never even met,” she said during her Iron Man 3 press tour.
Sam Pollard’s new documentary, MLK/FBI, about the U.S. government's surveillance of Martin Luther King Jr., has been picked up by IFC Films for North America ahead of a world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival on Tuesday night.
Also Read: David Oyelowo Chose 'The Water Man' as His Directorial Debut Because of His Love for 'The Goonies' (Video)“MLK/FBI” was produced by Benjamin Hedin for Tradecraft Films, in association with Field of Vision, Play/Action Pictures, and Cinetic Media.
Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmIFC Films announced today that it is acquiring North American rights to MLK/FBI, directed by Emmy® Award-winner and Oscar® nominee Sam Pollard. MLK/FBI was part of the Official Selection for the 2020 edition of the Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and New York Film Festival.
Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy has announced his fourth solo album and revealed two new singles.
is finding out her late husband's secret life in the way possible.The vet stars in Fox's upcoming soap, , which follows the uber-wealthy Southern family, the Monreauxes, who face an insurmountable loss when its patriarch, Eugene (), the creator of a popular and successful Christian television network, Sunshine, dies in a plane crash.
In a time of dramatic political unrest, film has a unique opportunity to look toward the past for insight on our present. Sam Pollard’s searing documentary MLK/FBI retells the story of the Civil Rights Movement from the perspective of the government, showing how FBI founder J.
Eddie Vedder has shared a new instrumental track titled ‘Cartography’ via Sub Pop’s Singles Club series.The song is lifted from the Pearl Jam frontman’s score for the Robert F. Kennedy documentary Return to Mount Kennedy.
dropping shade means.”He has since learned exactly what dropping shade means, and he has continued to do it. In fact, “The Way I See It,” a documentary that premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and will be released by Focus Features on Sept.
It’s 1963, and throngs of Black folks have packed the National Mall for the March on Washington. Images of jubilant men and women holding flags, and dressed in their Sunday best, strewn across the screen.
Dakota Johnson and Chris Martin head to a park for a picnic lunch on Monday (September 7) in Amagansett, N.Y.
In 1963, the FBI began wiretapping Martin Luther King Jr. with the aim of “neutralizing King as an effective Negro leader," as an FBI memo put it at the time.