History will be made at this year’s Golden Globes. For the first time in the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s history, two siblings of color – Jackson Lee, 23, and Satchel Lee, 26 — will serve as ambassadors during the awards show ceremony.
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Tomris Laffly Few types of films are more awkward to sit through than listless and unremarkable biographical documentaries that fall short of their inspiring subjects.
Touring the film festival circuit since 2019 and finally available to the general public via virtual cinemas, Freida Lee Mock’s “Ruth: Justice Ginsburg in Her Own Words” unfortunately yields one such bumpy viewing experience.On one hand, it is tough not to adore the central figure of “Ruth,” the legendary and influential Supreme
.History will be made at this year’s Golden Globes. For the first time in the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s history, two siblings of color – Jackson Lee, 23, and Satchel Lee, 26 — will serve as ambassadors during the awards show ceremony.
The 2021 Golden Globes is featuring siblings as the 78th annual ceremony’s ambassadors, as director Spike Lee‘s son Jackson and daughter Satchel will getting to shine on the telecast. It won’t be the usual handing awards to the winners and showing them the direction to exit offstage, due to the COVID-19 pandemic causing a smaller ceremony with many of the nominees appearing remotely.
Spike and Tonya Lewis Lee's children, Satchel and Jackson, were raised to be unafraid of self-expression. But this year's Golden Globes Ambassadors are surprisingly soft-spoken, mixing thoughtfulness with the candor for which their auteur father is so well known.
Andra Day is about to make a bigger name for herself, portraying legendary jazz singer Billie Holiday in Lee Daniels’ biopic,. This marks the first lead onscreen role for the 36-year-old performer, who opens up to ET’s Rachel Smith about the dramatic transformation she went through to embody the 1940s icon.
Also Read: Spike Lee to Direct Musical About Invention of Viagra for eOne“Gordon Hemingway & the Realm of Cthulu” will be produced by Spike Lee, Lloyd Levin and Beatriz Levin. Lloyd Levin and Beatriz Levin initially optioned the spec screenplay from Woon and brought the film to Bristol and Lee.“Gordon Hemingway” will also have visual effects from the team at Goodbye Kansas.
Marvel fans have pointed out a touching tribute to late comic book writer Stan Lee in the latest episode of WandaVision.In the opening credits of episode seven, Wanda’s name is spelled out in a number of different ways including a number plate that features the numbers 122822 above it.Fans on Twitter pointed out that the date represents Stan Lee’s birthday, December 28, 1922.“In the opening scene of #WandaVision, one of these titles shows Wanda’s name on a license plate with the number 122822,”
YouTube has unveiled its latest slate of originals with projects from Alicia Keys, rapper Quavo and a series about the K-Pop phenomenon.
John Lee Hancock wrote the screenplay for Warner Bros’ crime thriller The Little Things in 1992, around the time he penned A Perfect World and Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, both for director Clint Eastwood. At the time an in-demand screenwriter, he hadn’t been a director yet, and the script, about a pair of cops who try to catch a serial killer, went through several iterations.
Michelle Williams has signed on to play Peggy Lee in a biopic for the legendary singer, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed. The biopic will be directed by Todd Haynes.
Michelle Williams is playing Peggy Lee!
In writer-director John Lee Hancock’s The Little Things, which premiered on HBO Max last week, Oscar-winners Denzel Washington and Rami Malek play two detectives on the hunt for a serial killer in 1990 Los Angeles. All of their clues lead them to Albert Sparma (Jared Leto), whose unsettling appearance and morbid sense of humor make him a prime suspect.
The only thing predictable about the Golden Globe nominations are their unpredictability. And the Hollywood Foreign Press Association went overboard with the chaos in this very strange year in which the nominations were announced before the eligibility period was even up (that happens on Feb.
Guy Lodge Film CriticIn 1965, the world’s idea of a problematic nun was Maria von Trapp: a black sheep in a white wimple who was booted from her convent for taking the odd hillside hike, enjoying a bit of a sing-along and ultimately getting jiggy with a handsome navy captain. By 1968, life had got a bit more complicated for misfit sisters, while a conflicted Catholic church struggled to contend with a decade of seismic social unrest.
So much of writer-director John Lee Hancock’s psychological cop thriller, “The Little Things,” seems recognizable and pre-ordained on the surface. The drama offers the trope of a grizzled veteran cop (Denzel Washington) conflicting with a talented younger detective who’s made the grade (Rami Malek), the way they clash, break balls, their various obsessions, a haunted past, and a quirky, alleged serial killer (Jared Leto), not afraid to tease and taunt the police.
In John Lee Hancock's The Little Things,Oscar winners Denzel Washington and Rami Malek play police officers on the hunt for a serial killer in 1990 Los Angeles. Their pursuit leads them to Albert Sparma, a prime suspect who seems to know as much about their case as they do.