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Honorary Oscar awards celebrate Fox, Weir, Warren and Palcy

Four standing ovations in one night might seem a little over-the-top, even by Hollywood standards, but at the Governors Awards Saturday night, where Michael J

The Independent UK

New this week: Lizzo, 'Criminal Minds' and 'The Woman King'

This week’s new entertainment releases include an live posthumous album from Tom Petty, the criminal profile spinoff series “Criminal Minds: Evolution,” a documentary about the plucky Mars Rover Opportunity and a TV series that focuses on the backstage melodrama at the Chippendale’s male strip clubs

The Independent UK

Grammy nominations: snubs, surprises and twists

New York (AFP) - It wouldn't be the Grammys without a healthy dose of surprises, snubs and head-scratchers, and the slate of nominees for the February 2023 gala did not disappoint.

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Grammy nominations 2023: Beyoncé leads race with nine

Singer has now received 88 Grammy nominations in her career, tying only with husband Jay Z as most nominated artist

The Guardian - US

‘It’s been nearly a month and it’s still sold out’: The Woman King takes over Benin’s only cinema

The blockbuster retelling of Benin’s history of elite women warriors has transfixed audiences in the West African country. Our reporter joins the crowds

The Guardian - UK

The Woman King star Thuso Mbedu says the world is filled with great stories. People just need to care enough to invest in them

Thuso Mbedu is The Woman King's breakout star. She speaks to ABC News about her journey and why this particular story had to be told.

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The Woman King: Viola Davis and John Boyega play a fierce general and a young king in this 19th century West African epic

The Woman King stars Viola Davis as the fierce general leading an all-woman band of warriors into war in a 19th-century kingdom beset by European slavery and internal power struggles.

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People's Choice Awards: The Kardashians, James Corden and Meghan Markle lead nominees

The Kardashians, James Corden's The Late Late Show and Meghan Markle's Archetypes podcast are amongst this year's full list of nominations for the 2022 People’s Choice Awards

Daily Mirror

Leslie Jordan: Dolly Parton, Cardi B and Sean Hayes remember star following his death

The Emmy-winning actor died Monday at the age of 67 following a single-car crash.

Evening Standard

‘The Woman King’ could not overcome the truth of the Agojie’s brutality, depravity, inhumanity

I applaud any portrayal of Black female power. But misinformation and the glorification of an unquestionable evil that romanticizes the Agojie as superheroes is unforgivable.

Chicago Sun-Times

The Woman King: Viola Davis says she thought about the man who sexually assaulted her while playing a warrior

Actor wrote in her memoir about the abuse she and her sisters suffered when they were young

The Independent UK

Monday briefing: What one man’s decade of harassment tells us about stalking in the UK

In today’s newsletter: Matthew Hardy’s sentence for stalking is believed to be the longest ever handed down for the offence in Britain. What does his case reveal about how the crime is policed?

The Guardian - UK

‘I can change the way Black women are seen’: Viola Davis on stereotypes, success and playing a warrior

Raised in poverty, the actor has conquered Hollywood, winning an Oscar, an Emmy and two Tony awards. Now she has brought her passion project to the screen – The Woman King’s epic tale of an elite female fighting force

The Guardian - UK

"Bros": A tragic box office love story

The failure to launch of Billy Eichner's new comedy could have something to do with the genre rules it breaks

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Evening Standard

The Woman King movie review: it may be wish-fulfilment but it’s also a dream

A stonking yet subtle performance from Viola Davis leads an outstanding cast in this groundbreaking film

Chicago Tribune

Nina Metz: Moviegoing is not activism, and it’s a mistake to promote a film that way

Reflecting on the disappointing turnout for the gay rom-com “Bros,” despite getting good reviews, the movie’s writer and star Billy Eichner noted that “straight people, especially in certain parts of the country, just didn’t show up for Bros. And that’s disappointing but it is what it is. Everyone who ISN’T…

The Conversation

Woman King is worth watching: but be aware that its take on history is problematic

The Hollywood movie The Woman King, released in mid-September, became an immediate box-office success. The triumphs of the Agoodjies, the women warriors of the ancient Kingdom of Dahomey in today’s Benin, west Africa, are as magnificent as the public had anticipated. In this epic historical drama, African women take centre…

The Independent UK

The Woman King review: ferocious warrior tale is a vibrant celebration of Black womanhood in all its glory

Viola Davis plays the (fictionalised) leader of the (real-life) Agojie, an elite unit of all-female warriors active in the historical kingdom of Dahomey

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The Guardian - UK

The Woman King review – Viola Davis leads the line in stirring warrior tale

Davis is the general of an elite team of female fighters, based on the Agojie of 19th-century west Africa, as colonialists seek to exploit tribal conflict

The Guardian - UK

The Woman King review – a thunderously cinematic good time

Magnificent Viola Davis heads Gina Prince-Bythewood’s ass-kicking, thought-provoking epic inspired by a real-life all-female army

Reason

The Woman King Rewrites History for a Feminist Twist on the Slave Trade

Hollywood often takes liberties. But there's a distinction to be made between poetic license and historical revisionism.

The New Daily

October movie guide: Don’t Worry Darling , true crime, Amsterdam and Everything In Between

The long-anticipated Don't Worry Darling finally his cinemas, along with a host of true crime, a love story, a villain and a fierce warrior.

Radio France Internationale

Epic starring Benin's Agojie women warriors packs a punch in Hollywood

Benin's historic female warriors known as the Amazons of Dahomey are legendary across West Africa. They are now in the international spotlight thanks to "The Woman King" starring Viola Davis. The big budget Hollywood feature has drawn positive reviews, but has provoked some criticism as it was not filmed in…

WEKU

Opinion: 'The Woman King' speaks loud and clear to this Nigerian feminist

The film about female warriors in 1800s West Africa is all too relevant, in 2022, writes Oyeronke Oyebanji: "The inequalities faced by the women in the movie reflect the struggles of women today."

Salon

The historic conundrum of "Woman King"

Can the cinematic potential of what these exceptional warriors symbolize overcome the dark reality of history?

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