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03 Feb

Golden Globes 2021 Snubs Include Da 5 Bloods, Bridgerton, and Lovecraft Country

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The Hollywood Foreign Press Association has had its say, at least in terms of what it thinks is worthy of consideration for the best in film and television in 2020. Coming later in the year than normal due to COVID-19, it was after Groundhog Day when the full list of Golden Globes nominees was announced. And among them there were some happy surprises… and some significant snubs. At a glance, the most surprising omission is the absence of Delroy Lindo’s name in the “Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama” category. Lindo, who’s done sterling character work his whole…
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02 Oct

Vampires vs. the Bronx Review: Young Bloods Clean Up the Concourse

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The Frog Brothers’ street cred echoes way uptown as Netflix offers up its after-hours, after-school Halloween special treat: Vampires vs. The Bronx. Think of it as Get Out for tweens as the real bloodsuckers in this Bronx tale are the real estate developers looking to gentrify the Concourse. They even dress like landed gentry. “The Murnau guys are chewing up the neighborhood,” street proud Miguel (Jaden Michael) warns his crew. The Murnau real estate firm doesn’t even try to hide it, they have a Vlad the Impaler face on their logo. Miguel is known as Lil Mayor in the reluctantly…
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15 Jun

Da 5 Bloods Opening History Montage Explained

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This article contains Da 5 Bloods spoilers. fThe 1960s were a tumultuous time. Knowing that has become a cliché, one that’s as basic as a white bread miniseries on NBC about the decade. Nevertheless, it was a monumental moment in American history and a flashpoint for transition as Civil Rights, Vietnam, and the youth quake of baby boomers coming of age all coalesced. And it’s a decade with systemic cultural struggles that are still with us—and not something comfortingly endured and “fixed” in the relatively distant past like certain Oscar winners might suggest. Spike Lee’s Da 5 Bloods astutely understands…
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13 Jun

Da 5 Bloods Ending Explained

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This article contains Da 5 Bloods spoilers. Delroy Lindo’s Paul is as flawed a protagonist as you could ask for in a Spike Lee joint. The man is practically advertising this in red neon by wearing a “Make America Great Again” ball cap. His son David (Jonathan Majors) says every Black American pleads innocent to voting for “the Klansman in the Oval Office,” yet his father does not. And that father’s last in-person words to his child were “my son is backstabber.” This is how audiences are challenged by the bitter traumas and painful scars that are bleeding out of…
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10 Jun

Da 5 Bloods

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Four African-American Vets — Paul (Delroy Lindo), Otis (Clarke Peters), Eddie (Norm Lewis), and Melvin (Isiah Whitlock, Jr.) — return to Vietnam. Searching for the remains of their fallen Squad Leader (Chadwick Boseman) and the promise of buried treasure, our heroes, joined by Paul's concerned son (Jonathan Majors), battle forces of Man and Nature — while confronted by the lasting ravages of The Immorality of The Vietnam War. [Netflix]Rated: RRelease Date: Jun 12, 2020
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10 Jun

Da 5 Bloods Review

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Spike Lee has history on his mind in Da 5 Bloods. That almost should go without saying for the kinetic, unambiguous filmmaker whose ambition is always to find the bigger picture. But as it turns out, even the framing device of the Vietnam War is not large enough for his latest effort. Rather Da 5 Bloods grapples with the ugly history of all American wars, and the Black bodies that lay in their foundations. This reality is present from the opening moments when Muhammad Ali’s refusal to fight in the jungles of Southeast Asia is juxtaposed with Apollo 11 landing…
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18 May

Da 5 Bloods Trailer: Spike Lee’s Netflix War Drama with Chadwick Boseman

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Da 5 Bloods trailer has arrived, previewing director Spike Lee’s intense, pathologically-potent Netflix feature following four African-American Vietnam War veterans who return to their former battlefield several decades later to recover a cache of gold and quell personal demons.   The events of the film unfurl through the time periods of the Vietnam War—in which our quartet of Paul (Delroy Lindo), Otis (Clarke Peters), Eddie (Norm Lewis) and Melvin (Isiah Whitlock Jr.) are young men—and a contemporary period in which they—joined by Paul’s adult son, David (Jonathan Majors)—return to the jungles to reclaim their gilded prize and recover the remains…
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