HBO has unveiled the official trailer for the second season of Betty, a series about an all-female skateboarding crew in New York City. Following its six-episode first season in 2020, the Crystal Moselle-directed series — based on her 2018 film Skate Kitchen — further chronicles the adventures of Kirt (Nina …
Read More »See Epic Final Trailer for 'Zack Snyder's Justice League'
Ahead of this week’s release of Zack Snyder’s Justice League, HBO has served up one last trailer for the much-anticipated director’s cut. The two-minute trailer features many of the hallmarks that made Snyder’s version of the blockbuster so mythic in the first place: Henry Cavill in the black Superman suit, …
Read More »'Judas and the Black Messiah': Shaka King's Movie Wrestles With the History of Black Power
First, history: In December 1968, almost exactly a year before the murder of Black Panther chairman Fred Hampton by the FBI, Paramount Pictures released what remains one of the most curious artifacts in the history of Hollywood — hardly a hotbed for radical views of black politics. It is a …
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