Coming back from admitting to having a deeply unsettling racist revenge fantasy is something Liam Neeson had to figure out in real-time in 2019. Two months after issuing an apology for sharing a story about carrying a weapon while seeking out “some ‘black bastard’” after a female friend was raped, …
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Everyone’s favorite Canadian rapper was originally meant to be the subject of Childish Gambino‘s Grammy Award-winning single “This is America.” In a recent interview with GQ, Donald Glover revealed that the song first began as a Drake diss track, built around the song’s beat and simple hook, “This is America.” …
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There is nothing on television quite like Swarm. This ultraviolent fever dream of a series, from the Atlanta team of Donald Glover and Janine Nabers, tells the tale of a tormented young Black woman, Dre (Dominique Fishback, outstanding), who idolizes Ni’Jah, the world’s biggest pop star — or at least …
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Donald Glover is finally back with new music — kinda — releasing a new EP tied to the world of his new horror series about an obsessive pop fan, Swarm. The five-song Swarm EP is “credited” to Ni’jah, the fictional pop star portrayed by Nirine S. Brown in the show, …
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Swarm, Prime Video’s new limited series from Donald Glover (in his first post-Atlanta project) and Janine Nabers (another Atlanta alum, as well as a writer on Watchmen), stars Dominique Fishback as Dre, a young woman from Houston whose entire life revolves around her fandom of pop icon Ni’Jah. In the …
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The cast and creatives behind Swarm, a mesmerizing TV series that premiered at SXSW ahead of its March 17 debut on Prime Video, have taken pains to avoid the elephant in the room: Beyoncé. It’s an odd predicament given that the form-breaking show is absolutely littered with references to the …
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It’s been five years since Alden Ehrenreich’s last film, Solo: A Star Wars Story, crash-landed in theaters. The then-twenty-something Angeleno had beat out 3,000 actors — Miles Teller, Taron Egerton, Ansel Elgort, Rami Malek, and Aaron Taylor-Johnson among them — for the role of young Han Solo in the much-hyped …
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During Snowfall’s sixth and final season, Franklin Saint, played by Damson Idris, declares, “I want the life I was so close to having I could taste it until they ripped it away.” “They” refers to dirty CIA agent Teddy McDonald (Carter Hudson) and his Aunt Louie (Angela Lewis) and Uncle …
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Atlanta duo Donald Glover and Janine Nabers take stan culture to the extreme in the upcoming Amazon Prime Video series Swarm. The first teaser for the show focuses on Dominique Fishback’s Dre, “a young woman whose obsession with a pop star takes a dark turn,” Prime Video said of Swarm. …
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Billie Eilish capped off her final of three “Hometown Encore” shows by bringing out Donald Glover, a.k.a. Childish Gambino, to perform “Redbone” Friday night at Los Angeles’ Kia Forum. Although the show took place two days before Eilish’s Dec. 18 birthday, the singer celebrated early as Eilish’s family came out …
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