HBOs long-awaited adaptation of Lovecraft Country started last night, bringing viewers face to face with a number of heinous monsters – both supernatural and all-too-real. Op the premiere episode, we got to know many of the show’s key players, but none who were quite as intimate as George and Hippolyta …
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Say, kids, did you know that “Blazing Saddles” is an “open and playful spoof on classic Westerns”? Well, now you do it, thanks to the trigger warning just dragged on the movie by HBO Max, who hired Professor Jacqueline Stewart of the University of Chicago to set things up for …
Read More »Interview With Lovecraft Country Cast And Crew
Lovecraft Country (2020)Photo: Elizabeth Morris / HBO welcome to Lovecraft Country… or um, you know … welcome to America for Black people. Based on the Matt Ruff novel of the same name, Lovecraft Country follows Atticus “Tic” Freeman (Jonathan Majors) who takes a road trip from Chicago through the 1950s …
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1 Of course, these are not normal times, but I can remember a season of not Hard knuckles get less buzz and attention. We’re all dealing with this little pandemic that is happening, and the NFL has been out of sight for a while, without thought. Plus, we now have …
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One night after he broke out the most absurd moments from President Donald Trump’s interview with Jonathan Swan of Axios, Seth Meyers moved on to the other end of the spectrum. While the Axios interview “could have doubled as an entrance exam in a psychiatric ward,” the Late Night host …
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