Review overview: Spike Lee’s Da 5 Bloods ‘burning topical’ | NOW

With Da 5 Bloods Spike Lee made a Vietnam War movie from the perspective of black American soldiers. Although represented in the United States military, they often have only a supporting role in the films about the war that raged between 1955-1975. The Netflix film about four black Vietnam veterans who return to the Asian … Read more

Man of ‘Tiger King’ Joe Exotic: ‘I have not let him down’ | NOW

Tiger King Joe Exotic, who is currently serving a 22-year prison sentence, recently accused his husband Dillon Passage of abandoning him. Passage denies that allegation in a message Instagram. He told his man to “assist in times of need”. Joe Maldonado-Passage, as the 57-year-old Joe Exotic is really called, wrote this week a letter which … Read more

Little Britain removed from Netflix due to blackface | NOW

Netflix has the BBC series on Friday Little Britain removed from the streaming platform because the actors can be seen in blackface in certain roles, reports Variety Tuesday. The series has also been removed from BBC iPlayer, BBC’s streaming platform. A spokesman for the BBC said about this Variety: “There are many old programs available … Read more

Ares director Michiel ten Horn makes horror series about goat riders | NOW

Michiel ten Horn, who previously made the films The deflowering of Eva van End and Aanmodderfakker and the Netflix series Ares comes with a horror series about goat riders. In Bucks a young descendant of the goat riders makes a pact with the devil. “Bokken becomes a fictional, oppressive, supernatural and highly cinematographic series, which … Read more

Fantastic Four director ‘received heavy criticism’ of casting black actress | NOW

Josh Trank, superhero movie director Fantastic Four, originally intended to cast a black actress for the role of Sue Storm. Because he says he received a lot of criticism about this, he ultimately did not do that, the director says Geeks of Color. In the Marvel comics, Sue Storm (Invisible Woman) and her brother Johnny … Read more

Chernobyl equals record fourteen nominations at British BAFTA Awards | NOW

The miniseries Chernobyl has been nominated fourteen times by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), the organization that presents the BAFTA Awards announced on Thursday. With that equals Chernobyl the BAFTA record of Killing Eve, the crime series that was also nominated fourteen times last year. Ultimately won Killing Eve three prizes, … Read more