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A tribute to all the actors and actresses who have brought legends back to life through films.

I’ve got some more comic movie casting! Big ups to Chiwetel Ejiofor has a lot of reason to celebrate landing a new role. Chiwetel the Oscar nomitnated actor is set to play Baron Mordo in Marvel’s Doctor Strange, according to Deadline. Baron Mordo is a bad guy who first appeared in the comic, ‘Strange Tales, […]

Academy Award winner Lupita Nyong’o stop by Sesame Street with a very important message, she join Elmo to discuss the importance and beauty of skin. The message from Sesame Street: “Elmo’s skin just happens to be very ticklish. Lupita’s skin happens to be a beautiful brown color. Skin can come in all different shades and […]

12 Years A Slave has done it again — this time, overseas! The awards season favorite took home the top prize at Sunday’s British Academy…

CNN Reporter Zain Asher held back tears as she reported on the news of her brother Chiwetel Ejiofor nomination for the Academy Awards Best Actor for his powerful performance in  “12 Years a Slave.” She talked of how she and her brothers were raised in a small hut in Nigeria, and her mother had to fetch […]

The nominations for the 2014 Academy Awards were announced this morning and none to our surprise, “12 Years A Slave” eclipsed the many other amazing…

In 1841, Solomon Northup, a free Black man from upstate New York, was kidnapped and sold into slavery. On January 3, 1853, he regained his…

Two days after seeing “12 Years a Slave,” scenes from the movie still play over and over in my mind. I’m not entirely sure that…

So many great movies this year first The Butler now this  12 Years A Slave