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Haunted Mansion Review: An Oddball Ensemble and an Engaging Ghost Story Elevate the Ride
Justin Simien's lively tale features LaKeith Stanfield, Rosario Dawson, Owen Wilson, Tiffany Haddish, and Danny DeVito. Haunted Mansion Review: An Oddball Ensemble and an Engaging Ghost Story Elevate the Ride Liz Shannon Miller
The 25 Most Anticipated Movies of Fall 2020
“New year, new decade, new films, right?” That was January, back when we were still looking ahead at 2020 with blind optimism and ill-fated excitement. Sigh, hindsight is 20/20 they say, right? Who knew. At the time, we had 50 exciting new titles we were anticipating, most of which have since been either postponed, dumped to VOD, or relegated to a limbo state. It’s been an unnerving year for the film industry, to say the least. A year fraught with shutdowns, furloughs, layoffs, bankruptcies, and re-evaluations. All of that change has prompted a seismic shift in how everything’s run across the media landscape, and no one truly has a grip on things just yet. Odds are they won’t for quite some time. Because of this, anticipating anything right now — let alone anything in pop culture — seems l...
Grab Ya Weaves: Justin Simien’s ‘Bad Hair’ Horror Flick Arrives This Fall
Source: Hulu / hulu The movie theatres haven’t seen a packed house in ages, but it doesn’t mean there’s a low supply in new releases for our viewing pleasures. On the way is a new horror flick about Black women, natural hair, and a possessed hair weave install that’s gone rogue. Set in 1989, Bad Hair follows a natural-haired executive assistant with ambitions making it on air as a music-video TV show host. Her dreadlocked boss suggests getting a hair weave to break into the business. Eager to succeed, she heads to a beautician for an install but later discovers the weave is horrifically possessed. This Black production of a very Black story is written and directed by Justin Simien, director of Netflix’s Dear White People. The cast lineup is just as exciting as the film, starrin...
