The 2024 American Black Film Festival Announces Retrospective: Celebrating The Legacy Of Denzel Washington: Moderated by Chaz Ebert | Festivals & Awards

“We are thrilled and honored to present Denzel Washington with the very first ABFF career retrospective,” said Jeff Friday, Founder & CEO of NICE CROWD. “Denzel has been a longtime supporter of ABFF having attended the festival in the early years, so it is truly a full circle moment for us to spotlight his career … Read more

Legacy of Monsters season 2 is aiming to be bigger and better while putting Kong in the spotlight

Monarch: Legacy of Monsters is aiming to make season 2 bigger and better while letting viewers spend more time with Kong The first season of Legendary’s MonsterVerse TV series Monarch: Legacy of Monsters ran on Apple TV+ from November into January (you can read our own Alex Maidy’s review of the first batch of episodes HERE), and while … Read more

The Legacy of David Bordwell; or, The Memorial Service as Network Narrative | MZS

Martin Scorsese famously said that cinema is a matter of what’s in the frame and what’s out–though, of course, it’s about lots of other things, including lighting, sound, music, performance, and design elements. Bordwell and Thompson’s interest was very much in that spirit. They cared about how stories were told, not just about what messages … Read more

Roger Corman’s Greatest Legacy Was Giving So Many People Their Big Break | MZS

Boris Karloff’s last film role was in the debut movie by film programmer and industry gadfly Peter Bogdanovich, “Targets,” about an assassin on the rampage at a drive-in movie theater where an elderly horror star named Byron Orlok (Karloff) is making a personal appearance; the film being shown on the drive-in screen is actually Corman’s “The … Read more

Working with Complete Fantasy: On the Legacy of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes | Features

The 1950s was a decade of great sexual repression, and the culture tugged towards the nuclear family that had been disrupted during WWII. This obsession often focused on voluptuous women’s bodies, and few were more notable than that of Russell and Monroe, the latter, in 1953, at the beginning of her star career. Yet, due … Read more

James Gunn Shares First ‘Superman: Legacy’ Cast Photo

James Gunn is getting closer to launching his own DC movie and TV universe. The first film in the relaunched DC Universe will be Gunn’s own Superman: Legacy. (Gunn is now also the co-CEO of DC Studios with Peter Safran.) It will star David Corenswet as the new Superman and Rachel Brosnahan as the new Lois Lane. Although … Read more