MTV is getting back to its musical roots with the recently announced MTV International premiere of My Life on MTV. The new music-focused series will celebrate and highlight some of pop culture’s biggest superstars and their most iconic moments on MTV. Visit streaming.thesource.com for more information My Life on MTV is set to premiere globally […]
Netflix just dropped the teaser trailer and some cool first-look images for Hit & Run, an upcoming action thriller series that is co-starring Sanaa Lathan. She will play opposite, 6 Underground star, Lior Raz. The streaming studio announced the series will be released in August 2021. Also starring are Kaelen Ohm, Moran Rosenblattt, Gal Toren, Gregg Henry, […]
So, I thought something was off with the order in which the Oscars were awarded. And low and behold, the producers of the Academy Awards ceremony in fact pulled a switcheroo most emphatically by reserving the Best Actor announcement for last. Many viewers, fans, and industry pundits were convinced that meant a win for the […]
As reported in Shadow and Act, the entertainment outlet confirmed that Issa Rae’s audio banner Raedio, just signed The Read, a podcast duo to a “historic record deal that will come to life in a first-of-its-kind original comedy album.” Visit streaming.thesource.com for more information The Read’s new project will be executive produced by Raedio president […]
Soul, Pixar’s Disney/Pixar’s first animated feature with a Black lead, took home the Oscar for Best Animated Film Sunday night. Visit streaming.thesource.com for more information We want to highlight a detailed film review made by Aramide Tinubu, senior writer for industry trade Shadow and Act, who wrote in December, “Like previous films from the famed animated […]
We all wanted to see Chadwick Boseman win a posthumous Oscar but the Academy saw things differently. Black Panther star and late actor Boseman earned his first Academy Award nomination posthumously for his compelling role as Levee in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom but the iconic actor lost to Anthony Hopkins for his role in The […]
Mia Neal and Jamika Wilson made on Oscar night. The two Hollywood makeup and hairstylists became the first Black women to win the Oscar for makeup and hairstyling for their amazing work in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, along with Sergio Lopez-Rivera. Neal ran the hair department and Wilson is Viola Davis’ personal stylist. They also made history as […]
SPOILER ALERT: If you know the story then you know, but if you have not seen the critically acclaimed film, Judas and the Black Messiah, then you may not be aware of one of Akua Njeri, a main character, who changed her name from Deborah Johnson played by Dominique Fishback. She was Fred Hampton’s fiancé […]
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is all in on 4/20 and it’s fitting today, he has reaffirmed his stance to legalize and decriminalize marijuana federally, by 4/20, next year! The staunch democratic senator from New York hopes to see an end to the drug’s prohibition once and for all. Visit streaming.thesource.com for more information “Hopefully, […]
The Upshaws trailer is finally here and the Netflix highly anticipated comedy series has a few familiar faces top lining the cast. From Black sitcom veterans Regina Hicks and Wanda Sykes who both serve as showrunners on the series, the series stars Mike Epps, Sykes, Kim Fields, Page Kennedy, Diamond Lyons, Khali Daniya-Renee Spraggins, Jermelle Simon, Gabrielle Dennis, and […]
Issa Rae is becoming a true television heavyweight, and the Insecure creator, Issa Rae’s next TV project, Rap Sh*t, was created after what consider were Jermaine Dupri’s controversial comments regarding women rappers. In a recent interview with Rolling Stone, Rae said her idea for the upcoming series arose after she read an interview in which […]
Idris Elba made a name for himself playing DCI John Luther, a television antihero on BBC’s Luther, a critically acclaimed psychological crime drama. But as dope as, the show and character was, it became the subject of criticism by Miranda Wayland, BBC’s diversity chief. At the MIPTV conference this week, Wayland made headlines for her […]
