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God Bless This #NoirTown Janelle Monáe Photo Shoot Directed by Jordan Peele
What a time to be alive. Jordan Peele, who’s now a little less than two weeks away from hopefully clutching his first Oscar, was recently asked by W Magazine to direct a fashion shoot. And Lord, did Peele deliver. He tapped friend and living queen Janelle Monáe to “star” in a storyline that reimagines classic,…
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Get Out and See the Most Talked About Movie of 2017 In Theaters for Free on Monday
Whether you missed out on Get Out’s original theater run or you just want a chance to see it on the big screen one more time, now is your chance to do so—for free. In honor of the movie’s one-year anniversary, AMC theaters will be showing the most talked about movie of 2017 on the…
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Watch: Jordan Peele Loves How Black People Watch Horror at the Movie Theater
Jordan Peele’s Get Out took home major awards at this year’s African-American Film Critics Association Awards, winning best director, best picture, best actor (a nod to Daniel Kaluuya, who played the main character, Chris) and best screenplay. During his acceptance speech, Peele had jokes about the way black people watch horror movies in the theater.…
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Sundance’s Tyrel Is Get Out Without Hypnosis or the Sunken Place
Tyrel may immediately draw comparisons to Get Out for its initial premise of an African American finding himself in an awkward situation during a weekend getaway surrounded by white people. But where Sebastian Silva’s Sundance flick differs from Jordan Peele’s Oscar-nominated movie is that Tyrel exists without hypnosis or the sunken place. It doesn’t pack…
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Get Out Is an Iconic, Critically Acclaimed Film, but Writer-Director Jordan Peele ‘Didn’t Know It Was Ever Going to Get Made’
Looking at the success of Get Out, one would imagine that writer-director Jordan Peele knew what he was getting into when he started working on the project. But according to Peele himself, that was not the case. The story for the now-iconic horror flick started out as a “fun project,” something that he had wanted…
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#StillRootingForEverybodyBlack: Here Are the 2018 Oscar Nominees
Today is the day. The 2018 Oscar nominees were announced bright and early Tuesday morning for the 90th annual ceremony. Comedian-actor Tiffany Haddish and actor-director Andy Serkis announced this year’s list of nominees from the Samuel Goldwyn Theater, and if, like me, you’re just here to root for everybody black (I said what I said),…
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Mudbound and Other Films That Get Black Folks Pissed Off at White People
Over the holiday break, I finally got around to watching Netflix’s Mudbound, last year’s period drama by director Dee Rees (who also wrote and directed 2011’s magnificent Pariah). The film was adapted from the 2008 Hillary Jordan novel about two families—one black and one white—attempting to stay afloat by sharecropping the same patch of hard…
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Black Dresses, Hardly Any Black Winners … So Oprah Saved the Day
Although it was all-black everything—from the carpet to the attire to Oprah Winfrey’s black-ass table—black actors and actresses didn’t fare too well at the 2018 Golden Globes on Sunday night. Sterling K. Brown, the man who makes men cry, won for best actor in a TV drama for This Is Us, but his melanated peers…
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Top 5 Black Movies and TV Shows of 2017 and No, She’s Gotta Have It Didn’t Make the Cut
2017 was a great year for black movies and TV shows, but one would not know it if one looked only at most critics’ year-end top 10 lists. That’s why The Root presents to you the best black films and TV shows of 2017—but first, a few caveats: 1) Power is not on the list…
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Top 10 Moments Black People Won in 2017
2017 has been, how do I put this succinctly, a fucking shit year. From the plagues of biblical proportions that this administration keeps trying to drop on us to the fact that Mother Nature is sick of the bullshit and has been trying to finally kill us all via hurricane, 2017 has not been skimpy…