Friday Find: Beautifully Creepy Teaser for Sundance Film AFRONAUTS
Premiering at the 2014 Sundance Festival, Afronauts is already makings lists as a must-see film. Starring Diandra Forrest and Yolanda Ross, the film was created by Frances Bodomo, whose previous film...
View ArticleBros Before Rogues: Is the X-Men Franchise Getting Worse at Representing...
by Nicholas DiSabatino (guest contributor) When Bryan Singer announced back in December that Anna Paquin’s scenes as Rogue in the forthcoming X-Men: Days of Future Past were cut, I was devastated. It’s...
View ArticleAnthony Mackie Gives The Best Interview Ever #UnleashTheFalcon
No words. Okay, six words: Anthony Mackie, Will you marry me?
View ArticleThe Absolute BEST Scene in All of Days of Future Past
Completely serious. If only it had been a little more permanent… That, or she ended up reincarnated into an alternate timeline as Angela Bassett or Gina Torres. Yup. Hatin’.
View ArticleRemember This?? URSULA K. LEGUIN’s *Badass* Response to Syfy’s WhiteWashed...
Back in 2004, the Syfy (back then “The SciFi Channel“) released a miniseries “adaptation” of Ursula K. Le Guin‘s Earthsea trilogy, titled Legend of Earthsea. The main cast was entirely white, except...
View ArticleFirst Ever Iranian Vampire Western Is Geeky Glory
Released this past November, Ana Lily Amirpour‘s A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night is probably the coolest film of 2014. Equal parts noir, romance, pulp, horrror and western, the film tells the stories...
View Article50 Years After Color TV, TV Networks Finally Putting *Color* On TV
It used to be if you wanted to turn on the TV and actually see non-white characters, your options were telenovelas, BET, or whatever all-Black cast family show was the Black show of the decade....
View ArticleGeeky “Loser” Wins The Zombie Apocalypse in Short Film ‘Super Zero’
It’s hard to be original in the “zombie” movie genre these days. The zombie-film lovers among us even have nerd-raging debates about how to categorize zombie films and even the types of zombies. And...
View ArticleBlack Superheroines Thunder & Lightning Star in DC Nation Short
DC Superheroines Thunder and Lightning are the focus of a new series of short animated episodes airing on DC Nation's Saturday animated shorts.
View ArticleAwesome Moms of Color in Sci-Fi & Comics
Because let’s face it, your mom is a superhero. Here’s some of the company she keeps! Rocket (Icon) Raquel Ervin had only been a superhero for a short time when she found out that she was pregnant....
View ArticleRemember This?? URSULA K. LEGUIN’s *Badass* Response to Syfy’s WhiteWashed...
Back in 2004, the Syfy (back then “The SciFi Channel“) released a miniseries “adaptation” of Ursula K. Le Guin‘s Earthsea trilogy, titled Legend of Earthsea. The main cast was entirely white, except...
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