At The Movies

Space Jam: An New Legacy
Superstar LeBron James and his young son, Dom, get trapped in digital space by a rogue AI. To get home safely, LeBron teams up with Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and the rest of the Looney Tunes gang for a high-stakes basketball game against the AI's digitized champions of the court, a powered-up roster called the Goon Squad. It's Tunes versus Goons in the highest stakes challenge of his life, that will redefine LeBron's bond with his son and shine a light on the power of being yourself.
 

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Summer Of Soul (Hulu)
Part music film, part historical record created around an epic event that celebrated Black history, culture and fashion. Over the course of six weeks in the summer of 1969, just one hundred miles south of Woodstock, The Harlem Cultural Festival was filmed in Mount Morris Park (now Marcus Garvey Park). The footage was never seen and largely forgotten until now. Summer of soul shines a light on the importance of history to our spiritual well being and stands as a testament to the healing power of music during times of unrest, both past and present. The feature includes never before seen concert performances by Stevie Wonder, Nina Simone, Sly and the Family Stone, Gladys Knight and the Pips, Mahalia Jackson, B.B. King, The 5th Dimension and more.
 

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Sex/Life (Netflix)
A suburban wife and mother takes a fantasy charged trip down memory lane that sets her present on a collision course with her wild child past. This series explores a topic that is usually considered a taboo, married women's desires. Netflix already has a lot of other series which shows married women finding passion in another guy. But this one feels like a more realistic depiction of it. An apologetic woman who knows what she wants. I mean the trailer on YouTube is filled with comments blaming the lead lady for promoting cheating and adultery and being a threat to traditional values.
 

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For Disney, the wait definitely turned out to be worth it as its long delayed Marvel tentpole Black Widow came storming out of the gate with a huge $80 million opening at the North American box office, smashing the previous pandemic-era record set by F9: The Fast Saga just three weeks ago. While the Scarlett Johansson superhero epic also cleaned up overseas, perhaps the second biggest surprise of the weekend was that the secretive studio revealed that Black Widow tacked on another $60 million in Premier Access rentals through its Disney Plus streaming service.

Actress Taylour Paige spent a month perfecting her pole dancing moves by working in a strip club in preparation for her lead role in new movie Zola. The film is based on a viral Twitter thread posted online by Detroit, Michigan waitress and former exotic dancer A’Ziah ‘Zola’ Wells back in 2015, when she embarked on a wild road trip to Florida with a woman she barely knew, her boyfriend, and a man who turned out to be the lady’s pimp.

Spencer, Pablo Larraín’s highly anticipated drama starring Kristen Stewart as Lady Diana, will world premiere in competition at the Venice Film Festival. Written by Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight, the film centers on a weekend in the early 1990s when Diana decided to separate from Prince Charles amid rumours of affairs.

Margot Robbie announced in a new interview that she’s taking a break from Harley Quinn and the DC film universe after the back-to-back productions of Cathy Yan’s Birds of Prey and James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad. The actress currently does not have any DC films lined up for the future.

Vertical Entertainment has signed a deal with Mister Smith Entertainment for North American distribution rights to romantic comedy The Hating Game, which stars Pretty Little Liars actor Lucy Hale and Austin Stowell, who also appeared with her in Fantasy Island.

CBS is calling on a familiar face to host television’s biggest night: The Neighborhood star Cedric the Entertainer has been tapped to emcee the 73rd Primetime Emmy Awards in September.

Paramount Plus announced that the live action musical The J Team will premiere on Sept. 3. The 90 minute feature-length film follows a young girl named JoJo (Siwa) whose life is turned upside down when her beloved dance coach Val (Laura Soltis) decides to retire and is replaced by a sparkle hating instructor named Poppy (Tisha Campbell-Martin).

Almost two years after the Season 4 finale of Animal Kingdom , the criminally addictive TNT drama came back with a vengeance Sunday night, teeing up a Season 5 premiere that left three characters dead and ushered in what might just be a whole new Pope.

The Backstreet Boys are hitting The Strip. The beloved boy band are returning to Las Vegas for the winter season for some Christmas fun in Sin City. It was announced on Monday that the group will be ringing in the holiday season with A Very Backstreet Christmas Party.

Eddie Murphy’s son is dating Martin Lawrence’s daughter. The Boomerang co-stars’ offspring, Eric Murphy and Jasmin Lawrence, confirmed they are a couple in a selection of sweet images of themselves together which were shared to Instagram.