NCM Entertainment Roundup – June 18, 2020 — The Bigger Picture

Let’s talk about the top stories in Hollywood this week! It’s official! The three biggest movie theater circuits in the U.S. – AMC, Cinemark, and now Regal – will all be open in July! Cineworld Group, the owner of Regal Cinemas, announced that it was planning to open all of its theaters by July 10, […]… Continue reading NCM Entertainment Roundup – June 18, 2020 — The Bigger Picture

Seattle CHOP organizer: ‘I’m not here to peacefully protest’ — VOICE OF THE HWY

Documentary filmmaker Ami Horowitz went to Seattle‘s Capitol Hill Organized Protest area recently and shared with Fox News footage of his interaction with Jaiden Grayson and other leaders of the movement. “Every day that I show up here, I’m not here to peacefully protest,” Grayson told the “U.N. Me” filmmaker, who also embedded himself in… Continue reading Seattle CHOP organizer: ‘I’m not here to peacefully protest’ — VOICE OF THE HWY

Stephen Schaefer’s Hollywood & Mine — Boston Herald

As a portrait of a man many compared to The Devil incarnate, Ivy Meeropol’s ‘Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn’ is mesmerizing. a perfect Pride month moment. Meeropol exposes Cohn’s magnetism, hypocrisy and malevolence with elan in a documentary that is oddly entrancing. This Cohn conspires with a gay Catholic Cardinal against homosexual […]… Continue reading Stephen Schaefer’s Hollywood & Mine — Boston Herald

Black And Brown Indie Producers Press Hollywood For Commitments To End Systemic Racism: Open Letter — Deadline

At a moment when Hollywood is listening more than ever to suggestions on how to make this industry more inclusive, a group of indie producers of color have written an open letter with some worthwhile suggestions meant to guide change. *** Let’s Be Honest: An Open Letter from Over 125 Black and Brown Independent Producers… Continue reading Black And Brown Indie Producers Press Hollywood For Commitments To End Systemic Racism: Open Letter — Deadline

Cancelling COPS — Film Quarterly

Laurie Ouellette places the show COPS within a historical and cultural context of reality media that participates in racialized police violence. via Cancelling COPS — Film Quarterly