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Elvis Costello and Jim Lauderdale, left, perform during at the Americana Honors & Awards show Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2019, in Nashville, Tenn.
Things To Do
Arts & Entertainment

Philadelphia Film Festival, Elvis Costello, H.E.R, Afro-art redux at Delaware Art Museum, and more in this week’s ‘Things To Do’

Despite the positive strides made in the battle against COVID, uncertainty and varying mandates ...

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Nakia (Lupita Nyong'o), T'Challa (Chadwick Boseman) and Okoye (Danai Gurira) emerge from a Wakandan aircraft in Black Panther. (Marvel Studios)
Things To Do
Arts & Entertainment

BlackStar Film Fest, Jerry Week, Petapalooza, and more in this week’s ‘Things to Do’

Aug. 5 - Aug. 9: Things to do in Philadelphia, Del., and N.J.

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Nehad Khader (left) and Maori Karmael Holmes (right)
Arts & Entertainment

BlackStar Film festival returns for its 10th year

The mostly online festival of Black, brown, and Indigenous filmmakers will feature a one-day mini-festival of in-person screenings at the Mann Center.

4 years ago

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Li Sumpter pitching The Escape Artist Mixtape at Good Pitch Local Philly 2020. (photo by Gretjen Clausing)
PlanPhilly
Arts & Entertainment

10 Philly filmmakers pitch docs about Philly’s trash problem, a garden-grown solution, and more

Can documentaries change a city? A group of Philadelphia media-makers believes so, and they have the pitches to prove it.

4 years ago

An illustration of a film projector overlays an image of the Philly Free Library
Community
Billy Penn

Users upset as costs force Free Library to drop free movie streaming service

Kanopy and Hoopla were projected to cost 10% of the library’s entire budget. The funds will be redirected to physical branches.

4 years ago

Billy Porter and Tiffany Haddish in Like a Boss. GLAAD called Porter's character, Barrett,
NPR
Arts & Entertainment

LGBTQ characters got more movie screen time in 2020, GLAAD study finds

A good portion of these were serious, substantial characters too — 80 percent of these movies had LGBTQ characters with over 10 minutes of screen time.

4 years ago

Jean Satterfield plays the revolutionary leader of an underground women's army in the 1983 feminist classic Born in Flames. (Argenis Apolinario/The Bronx Museum of the Arts)
NPR
Arts & Entertainment

This 1983 feminist film was set in the dystopian future, so basically right now

Born in Flames is an entertaining, energetic mélange of punk and science fiction, set in the not-too-distant future (which is to say, around now).

4 years ago

The Franklin Institute
Arts & Entertainment

A global Harry Potter exhibition will debut at the Franklin Institute in 2022

The globally touring exhibition, featuring material from across the entire Wizarding World, will premiere at the Franklin Institute in 2022.

4 years ago

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Arts & Entertainment
Billy Penn

Questlove gives Philly artists a boost with local billboard blast

Created with Mural Arts, the artwork is part of a promo campaign for the music documentary “Summer of Soul.”

4 years ago

Riz Ahmed at the 2021 Academy Awards. (Handout/A.M.P.A.S. via Getty Images)
NPR
Arts & Entertainment

Just 10% of popular movies had a Muslim character. Riz Ahmed wants to change that

Muslims are very rarely depicted in movies, and when they are, it's usually as a stereotypical terrorist, what Oscar nominated actor Riz Ahmed calls a "dangerous trope."

4 years ago

A protest sign that says
Arts & Entertainment
Billy Penn

Despite many good options, Jake Tapper’s followers think ‘Rocky’ is the best Philly movie

The online debate raged fast and furious.

4 years ago

FILE - This Aug. 13, 2020 file photo shows a logo for Netflix on a remote control in Portland, Ore. Streaming services ranging from Netflix to Disney+ want us to stop sharing passwords. That's the new edict from the giants of streaming media, who hope to discourage the common practice of sharing account passwords without alienating their subscribers, who've grown accustomed to the hack. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane, File)
Community

Passing on your password? Streaming services are past it

Many of us were taught to share as kids. Now streaming services ranging from Netflix to Amazon to Disney+ want us to stop.

5 years ago

Barry Jenkins served as showrunner, executive producer, writer and director to the 10-part Amazon series, The Underground Railroad. (Atsushi Nishijima/Amazon Studios)
NPR
Arts & Entertainment

‘Underground Railroad’ director Barry Jenkins sees film as an ’empathy machine’

Barry Jenkins served as showrunner, executive producer, writer and director to the 10-part Amazon series, The Underground Railroad.

5 years ago

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association voted last week to approve an overhaul proposal but the group's pledges of transformation have done little to reassure entertainment companies. (Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for Hollywood Foreign Press)
NPR
Arts & Entertainment

NBC won’t air 2022 Golden Globes in rebuke to Hollywood Foreign Press Association

The network is the latest company to distance itself from the press group which has been accused of self-dealing, corruption and conflicts of interest.

5 years ago

Empty frames that would normally hold movie posters hang on the front of an AMC theater shuttered by the coronavirus pandemic on Dec. 4, 2020, in Rosemont, Ill. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)
NPR
Arts & Entertainment

If big box office means big ratings, this year’s Oscars are in big trouble

Most awards seasons find film fans seeking out Best Picture nominees in the runup to the telecast, with the eventual winner reaping millions of additional dollars.

5 years ago

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