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New yr, new content material.
Welcome to 2024. We embrace this yr and are hopeful that good occasions, they’re a-coming.
After a little bit of a tumultuous yr in popular culture and leisure (bear in mind these SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes?), hopefully issues shall be each calmer and extra thrilling – in a great way – within the business.
One film that loads of individuals are wanting ahead to is giving me hope for what’s to return.
Full disclosure: I’ve identified Ava DuVernay since earlier than she grew to become a famed film director.
Again then she labored in public relations, and was already nice at greedy what makes for an ideal story.
Her newest movie, “Origin,” isn’t even out but and is already being hailed as a must-see movie.
No spoilers right here, however the film is an adaptation of Isabel Wilkerson’s e book “Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents,” and it’s masterfully performed.
DuVernay each wrote and directed this undertaking, which examines a number of human points from prejudice to grief.
The important thing to what’s been achieved right here, nevertheless, is how DuVernay manages to make viewers suppose with out hammering them over the top with the heaviness that always accompanies such subjects. To not point out the transcendent efficiency by star Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor.
I instantly thought Oscar nominations, however early on on this awards season “Origin” hasn’t acquired a lot consideration to date, which has been shocking to me.
Fingers crossed that audiences will present it extra love and the Academy Awards does proper by it.
Cardi B and Offset have split a number of occasions, so we shouldn’t be stunned that their on-again/off-again relationship by no means appears to be completely off.
Not too long ago, Cardi B engaged in some TMI (an excessive amount of info) by sharing that she and her estranged husband attached for New 12 months’s Eve.
Granted, they’re adults and grown individuals do grown issues, however Cardi B has been identified to go off on her social media followers for his or her commentary about her private life when she doesn’t prefer it. Maybe sharing about her marital intimacy doesn’t precisely dissuade individuals from doing that?
In different phrases, please take us out of the chat, Cardi B. and Offset.
Podcasts don’t at all times need to be about actual life.
I’m a little bit late to the social gathering on this one, however am now all in with “Batman Unburied,” a Spotify podcast during which a serial killer is terrorizing Gotham, however sadly Bruce Wayne has no reminiscence of being Batman and consequently can’t save the town.
It’s significantly participating even if you happen to aren’t a serious Batman fan. Which isn’t to say you gained’t be by the point you end the podcast.
Stream it on Spotify.
One factor Netflix does nicely is true crime documentaries.
“Bitconned” is one among its newest and it’s a captivating have a look at some individuals who took benefit of the unregulated world of cryptocurrency to rip-off individuals.
Thoughts you, loads of individuals nonetheless don’t even perceive bitcoin and such, however all of us get being conned.
It’s at the moment streaming on Netflix.