We attended a panel and early AAFCA screening of Netflix’s new series, Self Made: Inspired By The Life of Madam C.J. Walker.
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On Friday, March 6, the highly anticipated Millennium Tour 2020 took off with a sold-out performance at the Hulu Theater at Madison Square Garden. Prior to the New York City showcase, the headliners performed in Louisville, Kentucky and Indianapolis, Indiana.
Exclusive: Issa Rae Talks American Express Ambition Project, Celebrating Women, & ‘Insecure’
Issa Rae is partnering with American Express in celebration of their newest initiative, The Ambition Project.
Just in time for a Friday, February 28 release date, The Invisible Man co-stars, Aldis Hodge (James) and Storm Reid (Sydney) joined a panel discussion hosted by Complex’s ‘Watch Less’ podcast at Crosby Street Hotel on February 20, 2020.
The romantic drama, The Photograph, written and directed by Stella Meghie, is set to release in theaters this Valentine’s Day.
Issa Rae stars in The Photograph as Mae Morton, an assistant curator at a New York museum, who has just received a series of letters from her late mother, Christina Eames (Chanté Adams). She also comes across an old photograph of her mother, perhaps the only one that exists, and begins to unpack all the secrets she left behind.

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Opposite Issa is Lakeith Stanfield as Michael Block, a notable journalist who digs deep into the Christina Eames story, leading him to meeting and pursuing Mae Morton shortly after a tumultuous breakup of his own.
As anticipated, Issa and Lakeith have great chemistry on screen, and each represent characters with a complicated past but a new future ahead. They fail in making progress, at first refusing to confront the true issue/s, but through a single photo, and a journey intended upon discovering Eames, all those connected to the frame discover themselves. As a result of not letting a single screenshot be the parameters of their full picture, they learn to take the limits off of love and beyond.

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Lakeith and Issa are able to smooth over the rough edges of the quick-moving timeline. There’s a questionable amount of back story missing from Michael Block’s perspective, with a narrative that heavily focused on Mae’s motives and fears and not much placement to Michael’s. But it is a love story after all, and though the timeline feels unrealistic, it’s not disruptive.

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All the love stories are intertwined. The double narrative—starting with the Eames story—helps us to understand how one could forfeit true love in the first place, and it feeds that curiosity behind the hunger for a better life at any cost.

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There were moments when I was more invested in Christina’s drive and her ability to command her first interview than I was watching Mae and Michael settle into their new and unexpected love. However, one plot drives the other and we wouldn’t fully understand Mae’s motives without the mother’s story at the sublayer. And while every action in the film is linked to a single photograph — the film is beautiful in that way — moving through flashbacks and present-day so poetically, the movie could easily be split into two separate parts.

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The minor characters are some Hollywood veterans and rising stars: Courtney B. Vance, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Teyonah Parris, Rob Morgan, Jasmine Cephas, Lil Rel, and Chelsea Pareto.

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The culture of the film and the music reminds you of Love Jones, and settles you like the ending scenes of Love and Basketball. It’s a unique black love story that should not be missed in theaters on February 14, 2020.
Everything feels normal at first glance of the Tucker residence. Four women Portia (Mama), Kristin Dodson (Lil’ Mama), Toni Lachelle Pollitt (Nelly), Nikkole Salter (Lillian) set Zora Howard’s Stew, in an ordinary kitchen in New York.
BroadwayCon 2020 Kicks Off Fifth Year Celebration With First-Looks on Broadway, TV Spotlights, & More
Since the inception, BroadwayCon has been a safe haven and fun zone for theatergoers and Broadway hopefuls, offering insightful panel discussions, live podcast recordings, workshops, fan meet-ups, marketplace/vendor opportunities, autograph sessions, contests, exclusive first-time previews, and more.
On The Scene: Terry Crews, Retta, Reno Wilson, Jocko Sims & More Celebrate At NBC Mid-Season Party
On Thursday, January 23, NBC hosted a mid-season celebration party at Bar SixtyFive at Rainbow Room in New York City. Among the attendees were Terry Crews of Brooklyn Nine-Nine, the cast of New Amsterdam, Jocko Sims, Margot Bingham, Freema Agyeman, Dierdre Friel, and Good Girls’s Retta and Reno Wilson.
Daniel J. Watts—who is currently playing Ike Turner on Broadway —presented The Jam: Only Child at The Public Theater & Joe’s Pub on Monday, January 6.