she’s gotta have it
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Purple Rain and She’s Gotta Have It Among 5 African American Films Added to National Film Registry
The Library of Congress has announced 25 new films to add to its National Film Registry for 2019. Of the 25 films that are “selected because of their cultural, historic and aesthetic importance to the nation’s film heritage,” five of them are created by and/or centered around African Americans. Those black films are Purple Rain,…
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She’s Gotta Have It Not Renewed for Season 3 at Netflix; Expected to Be Shopped Elsewhere
It looks like Netflix does not, in fact, gotta have it. (Had to do it; too easy.) It’s official. She’s Gotta Have It is not being renewed for Season 3. According to a press release via Netflix, their strategy when it comes to parting ways with their television shows has more to do with viewership…
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She’s Gotta Have It Writer Responds to John Boyega Regarding ‘Trash’ Black Brits Scene
In the fifth episode of She’s Gotta Have It’s second season, titled, “SuperCaliFragiSexy,” Nola Darling (DeWanda Wise) and her new lust interest Olumide “Olu” Owoye (Michael Luwoye) are chillin’ on the couch discussing Black British actors’ impact on Hollywood. “Black British actors are better suited than black American actors because they don’t carry the burden…
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Watch: Nola Darling Needs a Longer Summer in She's Gotta Have It Season 2 Trailer
“This love shit is a motherfucker.” But she’s still gotta have it because Netflix’s She’s Gotta Have It is coming back, and now we’re getting a visual sneak peek into the show’s sophomore season. Per Netflix’s press release: A seriously sexy comedy and rousing celebration of female empowerment, She’s Gotta Have It Season 2 offers…
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Time Traveling: For BlacKkKlansman, Costume Designer Marci Rodgers Took a Full Circle Journey
If you ask Marci Rodgers how she became a costume designer, her answer is simple: “God.” To the believers, it’s a perfectly credible answer, while the more spiritually skeptical might raise an eyebrow. But there is something undeniably divine in Rodger’s career trajectory, which began as a style-obsessed teenager in Evanston, Ill., just north of…
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She’s Gotta Be in Captain Marvel: DeWanda Wise to Join Superhero Flick
After starring in Spike Lee’s She’s Gotta Have It Netflix series, DeWanda Wise has something marvelous on deck. Wise has just been added to the cast of Captain Marvel, the highly anticipated superhero flick from Marvel Studios slated to come out next year. Wise joins Brie Larson, who will star as the title character, and…
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She’s Gotta Have Her: The Great Str8-Girl Debate
It was around 1994, and I was crushing hard on L. She was fine—like an Asian Apollonia, but just a bit thicker, with a dynamite smile and an easy laugh. She was also the sister of a guy I worked and hung out with, and I liked her immediately. Up to that point, my dating…
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Glow-Getter: Santana Caress Benitez Cooks Like Your Mother … and May Just Steal the Scene
Chef Santana Caress Benitez doesn’t call herself an actress. This, despite her appearance as Lourdes “LuLu” Blackmon in Netflix’s recent series reboot of Spike Lee’s She’s Gotta Have It; a scene-stealing supporting role that has literally sent Hollywood calling (as evidenced by the feature-film audition she’d sent off just prior to our conversation). Personally asked…
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Why Nola Darling 2.0 Is Not a Good Example of Polyamory
Let me start off by saying that I loved the Netflix series She’s Gotta Have It. I thought it was brilliant, and I highly recommend it. It is classic Spike Lee—everything we want and expect from him in a film on the small screen. From the cinematography to the soundtrack to the acting, everything was…
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‘I’m a Sex-Positive, Polyamorous Pansexual’: Spike Lee’s Nola Darling Is Back, Baby!
In what undoubtedly was a black woman ahead of her time, the character Nola Darling (played by Tracy Camilla Johns) was introduced to the world by Spike Lee as the lead in his very first film, 1986’s She’s Gotta Have It (Lee also faced some pushback for a problematic rape scene in it, a scene…