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'Veep' and 'Handmaid's Tale' were the big winners on the TV side. In keeping with the current mood of Hollywood’s creative community, the 2018 Writers Guild of America West Awards was largely focused on rewarding projects that flexed the power of using a voice to either shed light and understanding on subjects too long dismissed, ignored or marginalized, or to critique, satirize or allegorize unjust social conditions or political agendas. […]

With Marvel Studios focusing on the marquee heroes of each film, many actors have come and gone over the course of its first decade of movies. But few have been missed like Natalie Portmanas Jane Foster. Portman's character was a key figure in the Thor mythos, and even goes on to wield Mjolnir as the new God of Thunder in a current run of the comic books. But after appearing in Thor: The Dark World, she […]

avid Oyelowo spent a decent chunk of 2016 playing a space-station commander named Kiel in a then untitled sci-fi movie for producer J.J. Abrams. The actor was as shocked as the rest of the TV-viewing public on Sunday to discover that the film, now named The Cloverfield Paradox, would be released on Netflix that evening. Oyelowo and the rest of the film’s cast, which includes Gugu Mbatha-Raw,Daniel Bruhl, Elizabeth Debicki, Chris O’Dowd, and Zhang Ziyi, found out about the release, and […]