Editorial
Chadwick Boseman Made a Career of Playing Strong Black Men
For four years, Chadwick Boseman battled colon cancer in private. No one outside of his very tight, supportive circle knew of his diagnosis. To the rest of the world, he was a supremely talented actor on the rise, delivering an instantly iconic performance as a superhero, embodying a future Supreme Court Justice with due dignity, and illuminating the experience of war. He was known for playing strong characters on the big screen, and we only saw a hint of how truly strong he was in his own life. Yet this was Boseman’s way — “to be young, gifted, and Black.” His talent came with a graceful understanding of the culture he was representing in his roles, no doubt emboldened by his experience with life’s mortal mutability. Whether he decided to keep his illness private for personal peace or to ...
Op Alert: Kanye West Won’t Be On Missouri Ballot Either
Source: SAUL LOEB / Getty Kanye West‘s blatant spoiler campaign for President is taking all the L’s. The rapper won’t be appearing on the Missouri ballot after failing to get enough signatures. Today our office issued a letter to Kanye West informing him of the insufficiency of his independent candidate nomination petition for President. The petition was determined to have 6,557 valid signatures of the required 10,000. pic.twitter.com/vxOSk8WCD3 — Missouri SOS Office (@MissouriSOS) August 25, 2020 In order to get on the ballot, Mr. West needed 10,000 signatures. However, as reported by the Kansas City Star, Yeezy came up short by 3,443 of the signatures he needed to get a spot on the November general election ballot. The info comes from Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft’s office, wh...
LA Clippers Coach Doc Rivers Powerfully Addresses Racial Injustice In America
Source: Mike Ehrmann / Getty In a perfect world, Los Angeles Clippers coach Doc Rivers and his players should only be focused on their goal of bringing a championship home as they battle in the playoffs. Instead, Rivers, like many Black Americans, has to battle the ugliness of racial injustice despite all his achievements on and off the court and addressed the matter in a powerful postgame moment. After the Clippers blew out the Dallas Mavericks 154-111, the postgame conference with Rivers answering questions about the recent shooting in Kenosha, Wisc. that reportedly left Jacob Blake paralyzed from the waist down. With raw emotion, Rivers blasted President Donald Trump and speakers at the Republican National Convention for sowing seeds of fear. “It’s amazing to me why we keep loving this ...
The Problematic Lovecraft and How We Can Flip the Script
H.P. Lovecraft In the 21st century, the horror genre is as deeply indebted to the works of H.P. Lovecraft as generations before were to Poe and Shelly. He’s hiding in the background of every strange tale in modern pop culture. Even when his influence isn’t obvious, dig into any work and you’ll find it; a mycelial network of literary tendrils, all leading back to the weird tales of a peculiar writer from the 1920s and ’30s. His name has become emblematic of a certain kind of terror: “Lovecraftian” — meaning an unknowable, cosmic horror where all experiences and understandings that humankind hold dear melt away into a gulf of incomprehensible sensations and existential panic. But don’t take my word for it, even Stephen King, our very own Master of Horror, admits his Lovecraftian lineage: “Lo...
A Brief History of Marge Simpson Versus Washington
You may think it’s a sign of our perpetually insane times that a member of the Trump administration somehow managed to kick up a feud with a cartoon character. Nevertheless, Trump’s Senior Legal Adviser, Jenna Ellis, recently tweeted that Democratic VP candidate Kamala Harris “sounds like Marge Simpson.” This prompted Marge, ever the consummate (albeit imaginary) professional, to issue a polite but cutting response, criticizing Ellis for resorting to name-calling, something she discourages in her young children, and for disrespecting suburban housewives. That might seem like the latest bizarre cut from the never-ending “greatest hits” of 2020. But The Simpsons, and Marge in particular, have long found themselves entangled with real life political figures, most of whom, like Ellis, underest...
Kamala Harris Joining Joe Biden’s Ticket As His VP Is Already Paying Off…Literally
Source: MANDEL NGAN / Getty Regardless if you like Joe Biden’s decision to name Kamala Harris as his choice for Vice President of the United States, its already paying off for him…literally. Kamal Harris joining Biden’s ticket is paying huge dividends for Biden already, and it’s only been two days. Before the California senator was named Biden’s running mate, it was a painful process to raise money. That is no longer the case, since Tuesday’s (Aug.11) announcement, the Biden/Harris campaign has raised a record $36 million, and that includes donations from 150,000 new donors, and the influx of cash shows no sign of slowing up. Now, despite some eye rolls from those who can’t seem to look past Kamala’s record as a prosecutor and decisions she made as California’s Attorney General, the enthus...
Black Bootlicker Hopped On Fox News To Say Sen. Kamala Harris Isn’t Black Enough
Source: The Washington Post / Getty Now that Sen. Kamala Harris has been named as Joe Biden‘s running mate for the 2020 presidential election, conservative media has rolled out the smear tactics as expected. On a Fox News program, a Black supporter of President Donald Trump has slammed Harris for not being Black enough. Stacy Washington, the co-chair of Black Voices for Trump and a SiriusXM talk show host, joined the network’s Fox & Friends program to make the declaration that Harris can’t claim her Blackness due to her ancestry. “She has really played up this idea that she’s a traditional Black American like myself and so many others who count ourselves among the millions of Black people who are descended from slaves,” Washington said. “But she’s no...
Colorado Cops Under Investigation After Mistaking Black Family’s Vehicle As Stolen
Source: Bill Oxford / Getty Brittney Gilliam likely has a lawsuit on her hands after police in Aurora, Colo. treated her and four minors like brazen criminals from a Grand Theft Auto session. According to local reports, members of the Aurora Police Department, already in hot water over the questionable death of Elijah McCain, made an error in detained the woman and her family in a situation that should have been handled with professionalism instead of carelessness. Local outlet 9NEWS reports that Gilliam was out and about with her younger sister, her daughter, and two nieces to enjoy a spa day at a local nail salon. Upon arriving at the establishment this past Sunday, they discovered that the salon was closed and thought they’d just be going about the rest of their day. Instead, APD ...
Clueless Reimagines Jane Austen’s Emma as Only Amy Heckerling Could
Page to Screen is a recurring column in which Editorial Director Matt Melis explores how either a classic or contemporary work of literature made the sometimes triumphant, often disastrous leap from prose to film. This time, he hits the mall to celebrate 25 years of the ’90s classic Clueless. <img data-attachment-id="609595" data-permalink="https://consequenceofsound.net/2015/06/a-tale-of-two-jurassic-parks/cos_page_to_screen-2/" data-orig-file="https://consequenceofsound.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/cos_page_to_screen.jpg?quality=80" data-orig-size="2400,2400" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"&quo...
Why Summer Blockbusters Won’t Ever Go Straight to VOD
Blockbuster Month is celebrating the true titans of the genre. All month long, you’ll read through a variety of features digging deep into the greatest hits of Hollywood, from popcorn classics to underrated gems. Today, Josh Spiegel debates whether the blockbuster will ever eschew the theater experience and go straight to our living rooms. Back at the end of March — remember March? Like, even the concept of the month of March? — my wife informed me that our sister-in-law was being proactive. She was starting an online petition regarding an issue about which she felt passionate. Was it related to the dearth of Covid-19 testing throughout the country? Staggered school re-openings in her state or others in the Union? No, she had begun a petition to exhort the Walt Disney Company to release Mu...
Inception Is Why We’ll Wait for Christopher Nolan’s Tenet
Blockbuster Month is celebrating the true titans of the genre. All month long, you’ll read through a variety of features digging deep into the greatest hits of Hollywood, from popcorn classics to underrated gems. Today, Sam Mwakasisi delves into the daunting challenges Christopher Nolan and his potentially game-changing new film, Tenet, face in these uncertain times. Every era in film comes with its own technological advancements, but it takes that perfect note to unify the tools of the times. Amidst the ensuing pandemic, and its share of indefinite delays, hope for a solid note is thinning, not least with the filmmaker who has been central to the conversation for the past decade. On July 16, 2010, exactly 10 years ago yesterday, Christopher Nolan unleashed Inception into theaters, galvani...
Racist President Trump Defends Confederate Flag & Cops Killing White Folks Like A Doof
Source: The Washington Post / Getty President Donald Trump, a title he holds mostly in name and not in action, has continued to exhibit that his concerns are to only cater to his base and not all Americans. In a recent interview, the former business mogul not only defended the Confederate flag but also brushed aside the deaths of Black Americans at the hands of police to center white people. Sittig with CBS News in a story that aired this past Tuesday (July 14), Trump rambled on and on about the nation’s spiking COVID-19 problem in states with governors who grovel for his approval and the state of affairs for Black Americans still seeking justice and acknowledgment of the disparate treatment from police in comparison to white Americans. Trump also bafflingly defended the Confederate flag d...
