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Everything you need to know before watching ‘Black Panther’

sudshr47 February 15, 2018

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This week’s Black Panther marks the first solo feature film for, well, Black Panther. However, this isn’t the first time we’ve seen him onscreen. 

Black Panther, played by Chadwick Boseman, actually made his Marvel Cinematic Universe debut in 2016, while his nemesis, Ulysses Klaue (Andy Serkis), appeared even before that, in 2015.

But if your recall of the previous Marvel movies is fuzzy (or if you never saw them to begin with), don’t fret — we’ve got you covered. Here’s everything you need to know.

What other Marvel movies feature Black Panther?

Black Panther’s first (and, until Black Panther, only) appearance in the MCU was in Captain America: Civil War. The film also featured the first glimpses of Everett Ross (Martin Freeman), T’Chaka (John Kani), and Ayo (Florence Kasumba), all of whom return in Black Panther. Read more…

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Beyond ‘Black Panther’: A brief history of Afrofuturism

sudshr47 February 14, 2018

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Excited for Black Panther? So are we. Which is why we’re rolling out obsessive coverage with Black Panther Week.

Among the images glimpsed in Marvel’s first Black Panther trailer was a tribal elder in an emerald suit with a matching lip disc, a body modification found in the Suri and Mursi tribes of Ethiopia. 

Warriors draped in blue “blankets” (or Seanamarena) soon followed, drawn from the Basotho peoples of South Africa. Alongside them were women in red beaded war garb – the Dora Milaje, Black Panther’s female Royal Guard – their vivid outfits remixed from the Maasai ethnoculture of Kenya and Tanzania.  Read more…

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‘Black Panther’ has highest Rotten Tomatoes score of any live-action superhero movie

sudshr47 February 13, 2018

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Why you should watch ‘Fruitvale Station’ before seeing ‘Black Panther’

sudshr47 February 13, 2018

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Excited for Black Panther? So are we. Which is why we’re rolling out obsessive coverage with Black Panther Week.

Long before super-team duo Michael B. Jordan and Ryan Coogler teamed up in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, they did so in Oakland.

The two first joined forces in an indie film turned critical darling called Fruitvale Station, which documented the life of 22-year old Oscar Grant before he was shot and killed by BART police on New Year’s Day in 2009. It was a deeply personal, gut-wrenching look at Grant’s death, and it gave a face to a polarizing debate about race and authority in America — humanizing one the biggest national discussions of its time. Read more…

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Either this is an amazing Black Panther action figure or someone shrank Chadwick Boseman

sudshr47 February 12, 2018

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The ‘Black Panther’ soundtrack is here to tide you over ’til the movie drops

sudshr47 February 9, 2018

There’s still one week left before Black Panther hits theaters, but luckily we now have the banging soundtrack to keep us occupied.
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‘Black Panther’ is on the cover of TIME magazine and people are loving it

sudshr47 February 9, 2018

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Any publication capable of repeatedly enraging Donald Trump is one we should pay at least some attention to.

The latest cover of TIME magazine has struck a chord. It features Black Panther star Chadwick Boseman.

TIME’s new cover: Behind the revolutionary power of ‘Black Panther’ https://t.co/7knjU9cGD5 pic.twitter.com/HzHjQOCoMC

— TIME (@TIME) February 8, 2018

Accompanying the cover is a piece by journalist Jamil Smith. 

I wrote about BLACK PANTHER for @TIMEhttps://t.co/CldGBeVaM7 pic.twitter.com/L2NykKjZuj

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‘Black Panther’ gets first bad review for dumbest reason imaginable

sudshr47 February 9, 2018

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Kendrick Lamar and SZA release the first music video from the ‘Black Panther’ soundtrack

sudshr47 February 6, 2018

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Black Panther is almost here but to tide you over, we finally have a music video for the soundtrack’s lead single, “All The Stars.” 

Top Dawg Entertainment heavyweight Kendrick Lamar is at the helm of the music accompanying the film, and in “All The Stars,” he shines bright with label mate SZA. Once again, frequent Lamar collaborators Dave Meyers & the little homies handle the music video. It’s just as lush as Lamar’s previous projects with them—filled with vibrant colors and incredible prints and scenes that look like they belong right on the Black Panther red carpet alongside Lupita Nyong’o, Angela Basset, and everyone else in Wakanda.  Read more…

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It’s unanimous! Critics love ‘Black Panther’

sudshr47 February 6, 2018

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There’s a new king in town and his name is T’Challa. Marvel’s Black Panther won’t open in theaters for another two weeks, but the reviews are in. 

As Mashable’s Angie Han wrote, this feels like more than a regular movie, whether because of widespread love for the character or audiences’ craving for nonwhite representation on screen.

A few years ago – and even now – this would have been any easy job to botch, but director Ryan Coogler and his formidable cast delivered. 

As of this writing, Black Panther is currently rocking a 100% on Rotten Tomatoes, with 48 reviews. 

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‘Black Panther’ builds a world you’ll want to return to again and again

sudshr47 February 6, 2018

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At the end of the day, Black Panther is just another movie.

But it sure doesn’t feel that way when you’re watching it.

Black Panther perfects what the Marvel Cinematic Universe has always done so well: build a world so richly rendered, it’s almost a letdown to reach the end of the film and realize it’s time to return to our own reality.

In this case, the world is the fictional African nation of Wakanda – the most technologically advanced country on Earth, which got that way by jealously guarding its wealth and knowledge from everyone else. The result is a land untouched by the horrors of European conquest and blessed by the bounty of the land (specifically, by a rare and valuable naturally occurring metal known as vibranium).  Read more…

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