HBO released a new promo for the highly anticipated 6th Season of Game of Thrones on March 28.
McDonald’s superstar performance channels an intimate rendition of the jazz icon.
HBO celebrated the life and musical legacy of music legend Mavis Staples at the NYC premiere of their documentary Mavis! last night (February 24th) at the Florence Gould Hall.
Game of Thrones fans rise from the dead with the release of a new trailer for the highly anticipated new season.
12 Time Emmy Award winning TV drama Game of Thrones is going to be available on DVD and Blu-ray on March 15! Game of Thrones was bigger than ever in Season 5, and now fans will be able to add Season 5 to their library just before the debut of the long awaited Season 6.
Six-time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald brings her acclaimed portrayal of Billie Holiday in the Broadway smash “Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill” to HBO, with the exclusive presentation scheduled to debut March 12.
What happens when justice fails to protect the very people it is meant to serve?
It’s no surprise that now more than ever, rape and sexual assault victims are speaking out and bringing their cases to college officials. And it’s also no surprise that colleges are pulling out their entire arsenal in order to hide these rape allegations. Any accusation of that nature would make the college look bad, and it’s even worse for the college when the culprit is a star athlete who brings them millions of dollars.
That sentence was just appalling to write, so I can imagine how it was to read. That’s exactly what the film The Hunting Ground explores. It is a documentary written and directed by Kirby Dick that focuses on several rape victims from colleges all over the United States. Produced by Amy Ziering, it first premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival on February 27, 2015. The documentary mostly followed Andrea Pino and Annie E. Clark who were both raped while enrolled at the University of North Carolina. They teamed up to lead a Title IX campaign against the school, which was then taken up by other rape victims at other colleges.
The film was moving. Pino and Clark shared their heart wrenching stories. Despite speaking out, their college did not act. There were numerous cases where victims spoke out about their situations and their cases were handled in a grossly inappropriate manner. In one case at Harvard Law School, a woman was raped, brought her accuser to the administration, knew her rights and had the rapist removed through expulsion. However, the following semester, the dean emailed her saying that the man had appealed and would be attending the school once again. Another case involved Jameis Winston, a quarterback for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers who raped a girl and got away with it since he was the star football player for Florida State University at the time. He ended up leading the team to victory and earning the Heisman Trophy as a freshman (making him the youngest college player to do so).
The film really shines a light on all of the wrongs with the college system and how rape is handled on campuses. There are so many wrongs happening, that it begs the question: when will attitudes and perceptions about rape change? After seeing this documentary, you will start asking tough questions about rape and rape culture in America.
Watch the trailer here:
On Tuesday, November 10th, guests gathered for a private screening and world premier of HBO’s new documentary The Latin Explosion: A New America.
Jon Stewart fans, remain calm. Alas it was a terrible summer. First, Stephen Colbert announced that he would be ending his stint on The Colbert Report. But fans weren’t too worried, since we all knew he would return in the fall to take over for David Letterman. And then the news really hit hard, when Jon Stewart said he was done with The Daily Show. That’s when we freaked out. There was nothing left to turn to. There wasn’t a host opening. There wasn’t a segment in which he could become a recurring correspondent. We were losing someone.
Or so we thought. Stewart has just signed a four year contract with HBO to make all digital content, meaning that it would be streamed online and on HBO GO or HBO NOW and other digital platforms. Stewart is working with OTOY, a graphics company that will produce the videos with him, and although there is a chance he won’t be on camera, he still will narrate them.
As part of the deal, HBO gets “first-look options” for anything that Stewart will do, meaning that if he wants to develop a show or film, HBO gets first dibs. But nonetheless, this will prove helpful to Stewart, HBO, and fans everywhere. Whereas Stewart has stated that the show was an energy drain despite loving it, he can now make short videos that will be all the more accessible to his fans, which tend to lean toward a younger demographic.