“Maybe I could know how to play my dad,” Michael said, “but I don’t know how to play Tony. I have to create my own Tony from my life and still play the things that made him Tony.” As The New York Times reports: “Michael was utterly fascinated with the multifaceted Tony — ‘a character who will cry, become angry at himself that he’s crying and then laugh at himself all in one scene,’ he said....
The ongoing series is set in a world where the majority of the population possess a “Quirk,” or an innate power that varies wildly in strength and utility. The main character, Izuku Midoriya (or Deku), is one of the 20 percent of humans born without a quirk, but dreams of becoming a superhero. Although Deku’s goals seems hopeless, a chance encounter with Japan’s greatest hero All Might ends with the crimefighter gifting the idealistic young man with the quirk to manipulate energy — so Deku enrolls in U....
Stephan James leads the charge as LaMarcus James, a quarterback who heeds a call to social justice, egged on and supported by his religious friend Emmett Sunday (Alexander Ludwig). Opening with a 72-hour countdown to the National Championship game, the film opens with the two friends reciting scripture across their gray hotel room, psyching each other out for what’s to come. Unbeknownst to Coach Lazor (a well-cast J.K. Simmons), his star QB is about to send a tweet that will throw his weekend — and hopes for his first title — into chaos....
Kendi and Mara Brock Akil, the creator of “Girlfriends,” will be executive producers on the project with Roger Ross Williams, the Oscar-winning director behind “Life Animated” and “Music By Prudence” set to direct the first in the series. “Stamped From the Beginning” is described as a hybrid of documentary and scripted feature. Kendi himself will also get behind the camera to helm a companion documentary aimed at children. Plans for “Antiracist Baby,” an illustrated book teaching about equity and inclusion via rhyming, will be an animated musical series focused on preschoolers with Chris Nee, the creator of the Disney Channel animated show “Doc McStuffins,” producing....
And Wednesday the Board of Trustees of the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures announced the expected appointment of Jacqueline Stewart, the museum’s Chief Artistic and Programming officer, to replace Kramer as Director and President of the museum. Kramer brought in the cinema scholar, curator, public educator, and TCM host in 2020. She’ll take over the role of Academy Museum Director and President on July 18 to guide the future course of the organization, which Kramer successfully launched on September 30, 2021 after a long and arduous journey through construction delays and a pandemic....
Caleb Landry Jones has been a go-to for playing feral, gnarly characters, from “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” to the gnashing drug addicts in the Safdies’ “Heaven Knows What” and David Lynch’s “Twin Peaks: The Return.” Here, he similarly goes to psychological extremes in a full-bodied and captivatingly messy performance — one that won him the Best Actor prize at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival under the jury led by president Spike Lee....
“Obi-Wan Kenobi” marks the return of Ewan McGregor as the younger Obi-Wan. Hayden Christensen also returns as Anakin Skywalker, who becomes Darth Vader. The series is reportedly set 10 years after 2005’s “Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith.” Per Disney’s official synopsis, the show captures the aftermath of when “Kenobi faced his greatest defeat, the downfall and corruption of his best friend and Jedi apprentice, Anakin Skywalker turned evil Sith Lord Darth Vader,” which took place during “Sith....
