Top 8 Marvel superheroes to replace your ex with
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Here is my tier list of the top eight Avengers you should replace your ex with. Spoiler alert: Who else to choose but Captain America himself?
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Quiz: Which fictional female warrior are you?
Have you ever practiced a few punches and kicks when you’re alone in the elevator? In honor of International Women’s Day, your days of wondering are now over and you can now discover exactly which fictional woman warrior you are.
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2019 Academy Awards walks shaky line between diversity and tradition
Though the show featured some pleasantly surprising wins and an impressive number of awards given to artists of color, the moments we could champion were quickly snuffed out by those that disappointed.
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Who will, could and should win the 2019 Academy Awards
This awards season has truly been a wild ride; fingers crossed that optimism will prevail and the Oscars will emerge from this critical inferno having made some good choices.
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With this year’s best picture nominations, the academy has a choice to make
The best picture award is, arguably, meant for the film that most defined the year in which it was released. The best picture winners are memorable not only because they were great films but because they had something to say about the cultural moment during which they were made.
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What more does a genre film such as ‘Black Panther’ have to do to win Best Picture?
If your film is a commercial film, it has to reinvent its genre of choice, be constantly talked about by the press and audiences and/or have a hefty studio campaign budget standing behind it to even stand a chance at getting nominated. And then you’ll still lose to stuff such as “The Shape of Water.”
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Reboot the Oscars: Award categories that the Academy should include
Though the act of categorizing films is still problematic, and while there won’t likely ever be a universally satisfying metric with which to judge film, the Academy is in dire need of some well-thought-out new categories to add to the awards season mix.
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Editors’ note: History in Action
From the history-making best picture nomination of “Black Panther” to Black-owned and operated businesses in Berkeley and beyond, we join in this month’s celebration of the Black community and hope to uplift the voices too often silenced.
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How ‘Black Panther’ became an Oscar nominee
This awards season, “Black Panther” has garnered Oscar buzz like Wakanda has vibranium. In total, the film was nominated for best picture, original score, original song, sound mixing, sound design, production design and costume design. As noted by Vulture, these are history-making nominations, but just how did “Black Panther” become
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Analyzing the Gina Rodriguez controversy in the wake of recent nonapology culture
But I wonder why former fans are so quick to criticize and even “cancel” Rodriguez instead of using these instances to create a much needed constructive dialogue surrounding race, ethnicity and representation in Hollywood.
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