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Just a Slightly Bit More Mystery Is Revealed with Latest Atlanta Season 3 Trailer

March 4, 2022

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From top to bottom, every fiber of Donald Glover’s Atlanta seems unique unto itself. There’s almost no other non-anthology series in the history in television that switches things up with characters, arcs, tone, narratives, etc. as much as the award winning Atlanta. Part of the thrill of watching any episode is truly not knowing what it going to happen as no single episode is a blueprint for another and we can only hope that Glover’s defiance of the long held trappings of genre inspires a whole new generation of television.

Still, we’re overwhelmingly curious what lies in store for Earn, Paper Boi, Earn, Darius, and Van as they leave Atlanta for the first time for Paper Boi’s European tour. This latest trailer for this third season gives us a little window into what sort of chaos the four get into. Though, don’t be surprised if this season goes so far beyond whatever you see here.

It’s pretty clear that they’ll show how black people are still othered in Europe and not just in America and do a wonderful job satirically putting that on display.

Boots Riley Makes a Hell of a First Impression as a Writer/Director with His Bonkers Satire “Sorry to Bother You”

July 18, 2018

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With that knucklehead Trump in office, satire is now more than ever presented as just satire with all the humor wrung out of it. That’s not to say that it isn’t good or effective, but there’s a reason that Black Mirror and all of it’s contemporaries are doing well at this moment.

Arguably, you could watch Sacha Baron Cohen’s Who Is America? and just look on sadly at the America that we collectively let happen as Cohen shoves that proverbial mirror over and over in our faces.

On the other hand, there’s Sorry To Bother You.

Boots Riley’s Sorry To Bother You, a feature debut from a multi-hyphenate artist, has so much panache and color and surrealistic elements that it’s ferocious satire is pretty damn enjoyable. In fact, there are echoes of early post-Monty Python Terry Gilliam throughout, which make it’s a message of systemic classism and racism even more accessible.

Think Office Space meets Brazil meets Get Out with The Coup (Boots Riley’s band) thumping in the background.

In any case, you should go see Sorry To Bother You while it’s still in a theater near you.

Please Enjoy the Bonkers Trailer for Boots Riley’s “Sorry to Bother You”

March 12, 2018

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Boots Riley’s satire centered around a black telemarketer is making plenty of noise down at SXSW and you can kind of see why from this crazy and great trailer.

Lakeith Stanfield and Tessa Thompson star in what might be the trippiest movie this year.

See for yourself here, then look for Sorry To Bother You in theaters on July 6th.

Jay-Z Has an All Black Version of “Friends” Starring Jerrod Carmichael and Issa Rae in His Music Video for “Moonlight”

August 11, 2017

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Well, there’s a lot to unpack here.

Jay-Z has plenty of layers to his brand new album 4:44 and the same goes for each song and accompanying music videos.

“Moonlight”, which features an sound byte from this year’s Oscars SNAFU when Moonlight and La La Land got mixed up for winners for Best Picture, has a music video that preempts the song with a big scene from a classic episode of Friends, but done with a cast of all famous black actors and comedians:

Jerrod Carmichael as Ross
Issa Rae as Rachel
Lil Rel Howery as Joey
Lakeith Stanfield as Chandler
Tessa Thompson as Monica
Tiffany Haddish as Phoebe

Before they go into a full remake of the episode, the song kicks in as the aspect ratio changes and a much more somber tone pervades the video. You might have to watch it a few times to even grasp how you feel about it and what you’ll take away from it in terms of black representation and visibility on both the big and small screens.

Also, there are outtakes that could stand alone on their own and also happen to include Hannibal Buress.

On top of all of that, Master of None co-creator Alan Yang got to direct the whole thing.

Take all of Jay-Z’s music video for Moonlight here.