Alice Walker won a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the first African-American woman to win the award, for her 1982 novel about Celie, an African-American Southern woman surviving poverty and domestic violence in the early 20th Century rural Georgia. The novel opens with the 14-year-old Celie pregnant for a second time by her father, forced to give … Read more
JoBlo attends a special screening of The Nun II, presented by director Michael Chavez. The sequel celebrates the Conjuring’s 10th anniversary. Do you remember the first time you saw The Conjuring? I certainly do. Since then, Warner Brothers have given fans a wild and entertaining cinematic universe based on the intriguing history of real-life couple … Read more
Today’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem clip debuts alongside Sneak Preview screening details for the new animated film. Everyone knows the grocery store can be a battleground. There are often crowds of people, individuals who don’t know how the self-checkout works, carts that have one wobbly wheel, and price tags that border on the … Read more
Reactions from the secret screening of the Schumacher Cut of Batman Forever offer praise and details on the key differences. As JoBlo.com was founded in 1998, we missed the opportunity to chronicle the reactions to 1995’s batman forever. But time works in funny ways, as just last week a rare screening of the nearly three-hour … Read more
Early reactions for Bong Joon-Ho’s upcoming mickey 17 have been overwhelmingly positive. The writer and director of Parasite and Snowpiercer helmed the sci-fi thriller. It “follows the story of Mickey 17, an ‘expendable,’ who is a disposable employee on a human expedition sent to colonize the ice world Niflheim,” reads the film’s synopsis. “After one … Read more
Early Exorcist: Believer reactions are in, and according to a report from World of Reel, the film had a less-than-stellar showing in front of test audiences. What were early reactions to Exorcist: Believer? In the report, it’s mentioned that early reactions for David Gordon Green’s planned sequel to the horror classic have been “not good.” … Read more