“I dunno,” Caleb says. “The world looks a little like a nightmare, Dolores.” “Change is messy,” Dolores replies. “Difficult.” Take a look around, people. They’re both right! Set in a chaotic, desperate world that’s a bit too close for comfort right now, Westworld‘s season finale (“Crisis Theory”) is based on …
Read More »Trailers of the Week: 'Men in Black International,' 'Hellboy,' New Linklater
So what do we have this week? Two looks at unusual superheroes. Two distinctly NSFW teasers for some upcoming indies. Cate Blanchett goes missing. A stoner TV anthology returns. Thor: Ragnarok‘s Tessa Thompson and Chris Hemsworth reunite and switch franchises from Marvel to MiB. Your best-of trailer round-up of the …
Read More »Is Hollywood Ready for Boots Riley?
As Occupy protests spread in the fall of 2011, rattling elites and offering a brief, tantalizing vision of grassroots uprising, the most uncompromising and confrontational arm of the would-be revolution was in Oakland. At its center was Boots Riley, the longtime radical activist and frontman of the hip-hop group the …
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