war for the planet of the apes
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‘Freaknik,’ ‘Shirley,’ ‘Magical Negroes,’ and More of the Most Anticipated Black Movies of 2024
We can’t wait to see Lupita Nyong’o in ‘A Quiet Place: Day One,’ Cynthia Erivo in ‘Wicked’ and the reunion of Will Smith and Martin Lawrence in ‘Bad Boys 4.’
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Did War for the Planet of the Apes Come for DeRay Mckesson or Did Hotep Twitter Go Too Far?
The Planet of the Apes movie series has always been racially problematic. Starting with the originals in the late 1960s and ’70s and extending to the reboots starting in 2011, the films have a sort of hackneyed white-liberal-pontificates-about-race element to them that is at times compelling and other times insulting. Apes, even superintelligent apes, as…