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This year (so far) had a bunch of awesome films in cinemas and even on streaming. It took me a while to nail down my top 10, but here they are.

The year is halfway done and so far I’ve mostly enjoyed going to the cinema. The 2024 box office seemed liked it might be a total letdown, but a handful of movies rolled around and saved us from disaster. This year (so far) had a bunch of awesome films in cinemas and even on streaming. It took me a while to nail down my top 10, but here they are. 10. Música Rudy Mancuso is weird and this film…

Fans of stunt woman Dayna Grant have donated over $73,000 and counting to help raise money for surgery after the stunt performer sustained a head injury while on set. As detailed by an official crowdfunding campaign, Grant was “experiencing symptoms of Traumatic Brain Injury” after the injury and was later diagnosed with an “8mm Aneurysm and upper spinal neck injuries.” Surgeons “recommend immediate surgery,” but Grant’s health insurance “confirmed they are unable to cover the surgery.” The campaign’s goal was to raise $60,000, the cost of the private surgery, but that number has been far exceeded.

If the name Dayna Grant does not ring a bell, then you certainly know her work. Grant was Charlize Theron’s stunt double on “Mad Max: Fury Road” and served as a stunt performer on films such as “Wonder Woman 1984,” “The Meg,” “Mulan,” and “Snow White and the Huntsman” (again serving as stunt double for Theron). Grant’s television work includes a long history playing stunt double for Lucy Lawless on series such as “Xena: Warrior Princess,” “Spartacus,” and “Ash vs. Evil Dead,” among other credits. Lawless took to social media to encourage fans to donate to the crowdfunding campaign.

Yep, absolutely nothing wrong with the US healthcare system. Someone suffering from traumatic brain injury needs ta gofundme because her fucking health insurance refused to pay for the care they need.

They have insurance. Money has been paid to them on their policy. But they won’t pay health care costs.

This morning saw the release of the trailer 

for THE LITTLE THINGS starring Oscar winners Denzel Washington, Rami Malek and Jared Leto.

and where do Oscar winners films go when they work with WB now? Well, HBO Max, as THE LITTLE THINGS suffers the same fate of WB’s other 2021s offerings and will have a day and date release in the theaters and HBO Max drop on January 29.

Written and directed by John Lee Hancock (THE BLIND SIDE) focuses on two cops (Washington and Malek) tracking down a serial killer (Leto).

In all this talk about Marvel’s Phase 4 and Sony’s expanding universe with Spider-Man and the Spider-Mens, the entity that gets left in the cold is Jared Leto’s MORBIUS.

There is no other film being ignored like MORBIUS

“Ahem?”

Not now, VENOM 2: LET THERE BE CARNAGE with your terrible tagline.

MORBIUS was set for a July 10, 2020 released, was pushed to July 31, 2020 and is now set for a March 19, 2021 release.

But for now Leto is just enjoying the holiday and not worrying about if he’ll be in the ridiculous SnyderCut.

Other WB moves: 

The studio has re-dated JUDAS and THE BLACK MESSIAH starring Daniel Kaluuya, Lakeith Stanfield, Darrell Britt-Gibson and Ashton Sanders for an Oscars qualifying run. The film was originally slated for an August 2020 released and was pulled due to Covid-19. It will now see a February 12, 2021 release. 

Directed by Shaka King (SHRILL, PEOPLE OF EARTH) and written by King, Will Berson (THE  MIGHTY B!) and actor/comedian Keith Lucas of the Lucas Brothers  (21 Jump Street), JUDAS and THE BLACK MESSIAH is the real life story of FBI informant William O’Neal (Stanfield) who embedded in The Black Panthers to get information on one of its leaders, Fred Hampton (Kaluuya).

Kaluuya was recently asked about his feelings about the backlash his casting received because there has been open criticism in recent years of Black British actors being cast as real-life Black African American figures. 

“I’m a vessel for a spirit that is going through me,” Kaluuya says when asked about the blowback. “It’s important for us as Black people across the diaspora to be together. And that’s not to discount what Black Americans feel, what they’ve been through. It’s not about me. It’s about chairman Fred Hampton.”

For Stanfield, it was a different struggle. 

 “I had so many walls up about what I thought he represented, which is everything I found abhorrent, wrong, immoral, weak and cowardly,” says Stanfield. “I had to break down the barriers of my own ego to tap into who he was.”

Also dated is the MAD MAX: FURY ROAD prequel FURIOUSA.  Written and directed by George Miller and starring Anya Taylor-Joy, Chris Hemsworth and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II has a release date of June 23, 2023. 

The live-action hybrid Road Runner film COYOTE Vs. ACME is dated for July 21, 2023.