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Sony’s animated Spider-Man movie casts Mahershala Ali and Brian Tyree Henry

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With the recent developments of Sony’s Venom and Silver & Black Spider-Man spin-offs, it can be easy to forget the studio also has an animated Spider-Man film on the horizon, but they have just reminded people it is still very much in the works as The Tracking Board is reporting that Moonlight’s Mahershala Ali and Atlanta’s Brian Tyree Henry have been cast in […]

3 Actors Who Should Star in True Detective Season 3 with Mahershala Ali

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Samuel Brace with three actors who should star in True Detective season 3 alongside Mahershala Ali… We have learned today that Academy Award Winning actor Mahershala Ali (Moonlight) is in early talks to star in the third season of HBO’s True Detective. And while we can speculate about what type of character he would be […]

Movie Review – Moonlight (2016)

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Moonlight, 2016. Directed by Barry Jenkins. Starring Mahershala Ali, Trevante Rhodes, Naomie Harris, Janelle Monae, Alex R. Hibbert, Ashton Sanders, and Andre Holland. SYNOPSIS: A timeless story of human self-discovery and connection, Moonlight chronicles the life of a young black man from childhood to adulthood as he struggles to find his place in the world […]

Oscars: And the winners of the 89th Academy Awards are…

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Let’s address the elephant in the room: there was Steve Harvey-reminiscent chaos last night during the Best Picture announcement at the Academy Awards as La La Land was somehow announced as receiving the Oscar… only for producer Jordan Horowitz to correct the mistake midway through his acceptance speech when he revealed that Barry Jenkins’ Moonlight […]

Movie Review – Hidden Figures (2016)

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Hidden Figures, 2016. Directed by Theodore Melfi. Starring Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monáe, Kevin Costner, Kirsten Dunst, Jim Parsons, Kimberly Quinn, Mahershala Ali, Aldis Hodge, and Glen Powell. SYNOPSIS: A team of African-American women provide NASA with important mathematical data needed to launch the program’s first successful space missions. File Hidden Figures under […]

Moonlight’s Mahershala Ali joins Tom Hardy and Channing Tatum in Triple Frontier

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Moonlight star Mahershala Ali has signed on to star in the upcoming action thriller Triple Frontier, which will see him appearing alongside Channing Tatum and Tom Hardy. The film is being directed by J.C. Chandor (All Is Lost, A Most Violent Year) from a script by Oscar-winner Mark Boal (The Hurt Locker, Zero Dark Thirty) […]

Eiza Gonzalez and Mahershala Ali join Alita: Battle Angel

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Casting continues on Robert Rodriguez and James Cameron’s manga adaptation Alita: Battle Angel, with Eiza Gonzalez (From Dusk Till Dawn) and Mahershala Ali (Luke Cage) the latest additions to the film. Rosa Salazar (Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials) is leading the cast as the titular Alita, an amnesiac cyborg possessing lethal martial arts skills, who […]

Scoot McNairy joins True Detective season 3

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The third season of True Detective continues to build up its cast as Godless actor Scoot McNairy has signed on to appear in HBO’s anthology series, reports Deadline. He’ll star opposite Mahershala Ali (Moonlight), Carmen Ejogo (Selma) and Stephen Dorff (Blade). McNairy will portray Tom, a father who suffers a terrible loss that ties his fate to that of […]

60th BFI London Film Festival Review – Moonlight (2016)

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Moonlight, 2016. Directed by Barry Jenkins. Starring Trevante Rhodes, Andre Holland, Janelle Monáe, Ashton Sanders, Jharrel Jerome, Naomie Harris, and Mahershala Ali. SYNOPSIS: A timeless story of human connection and self-discovery, Moonlight chronicles the life of a young black man from childhood to adulthood as he struggles to find his place in the world while growing […]