Black history month post: Black Panther's Mythical Home May Not Be So Mythical After All

OP: I have no affiliation to Marvel, or the films, BTW. (LOL. I wish!!) ;-)

OP: Also, please note that this was originally published in May 2016.

OP: Finally, there may be some relatively minor spoilers for the movie behind the cut.
( History and awesomeness under the cut... )

(OP: Please note that the mention of 'India' in the text includes not only today's India, but also people from today's Pakistan and Bangladesh. Also important to the war effort in Europe were other groups such as the Nepalese (commonly known as Gurkhas).)

Does Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk ignore the role of the Indian army?


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Bigoted homophobic Christian theater owner announces decision to not show "Beauty and the Beast" in a FB post. People do not react well. Theater owner can't stand heat, gets out of kitchen by taking down their whole Facebook page. LMAO.

An Alabama theater is scrapping plans to show Disney’s live-action “Beauty and the Beast” after catching wind ( Read more... )

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Actor Mark Ruffalo has responded to the trans community’s critical response to the casting of actor Matt Bomer as a transgender sex worker in his new film, Anything ( Read more... )

Mike Pence Says Disney Made ‘Mulan’ To Promote Women In Combat
It was “obviously” the hope of a “mischievous liberal” at the studio, he wrote.


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CBS Films has said it will look into why references to homosexuality were removed from the DVD cover of the US release of British film Pride.


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Florida GOP state senator Alan Hays said he’ll propose a bill mandating that students in the 1,700 Florida public high schools and middle schools are to be shown the film unless their parents object.


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Curtis Reeves’s son was late. So, at 1:04 p.m. on Jan. 13, Mr. Reeves, a retired police officer, sent his son a text, telling him that he and his wife had gone into the movie theater and were seated.

Not so unusual - except that, just minutes later, Reeves shot to death another theatergoer when the man refused to stop texting during the movie ( Read more... )