Ava

Being the oldest of five kids, I’ve got real big-sister energy. I’m protective and want to take care of people. But I also know when I have to take charge, what it means to be a leader. It shapes me as a director. To lead well, you have to care.I was a happy young black girl growing up in Compton, California. I loved my neighbourhood, community, my all-girls Catholic high school. I know so many folks who had hard paths in their early years. I’m grateful to have had a different experience.When I was 18, while a student,…

Today during the Xbox Partner Preview, Spanish game studios Inverge and Chibig--by way of publisher 11-bit Studios--revealed Creatures Of Ava, a new action-adventure game where players will use music to tame and work with the wildlife of the world. 11-bit also announced the game will be available on both PC Game Pass and Xbox Game Pass at launch this year.Creatures Of Ava puts players in the role of Vic, a young adventurer who has partnered with a researcher named Tabitha to investigate the "Withering"--a…

As Jon Bernthal’s face pings on to the screen from his California home, I’m peering in to his giant living room, looking for his three pit bull terriers. While he was, for a long time, mainly thought of as the square-jawed beefcake Shane Walsh in The Walking Dead (2010 to 2012, then again in 2018 and 2022), and later as the iron-pecced Punisher in two eponymous series and various episodes of Daredevil, the 47-year-old has become more associated with social conscience, on screen and off.He has a podcast, Real Ones, where…

Quinta Brunson's hit sitcom will return on Feb. 7 Abbott Elementary will be back soon, but some of the beloved characters are trying on new personalities for the school year. The hit sitcom returns to ABC with a one-hour block of episodes on Feb. 7. In the new trailer, typically inept principal Ava Coleman (Janelle James) has returned for the new year with a whole new perspective on her job. She attended a course at Harvard over the summer having “learned what it truly takes to do the job of a…

For Ava DuVernay, whose projects like 13th, Selma, and When They See Us challenge viewers to contend with the gut-wrenching racism that’s colored American history, Origin provides a more global perspective on racial inequality and its foundation within social hierarchies.    “I try to make soul food with my movies, not junk food, not fast food,” DuVernay tells Rolling Stone. “Not stuff that goes in and goes straight up the next day, but stuff that sticks to your ribs.”  Origin, which DuVernay wrote and…

It is a truth universally acknowledged (or at least it should be by now) that America is a country founded upon — as well as cursed, colonized, and fertilized by — a bedrock of racism that continues to this day. Should you be unable to wrap your head around that in 2024, we’re not sure what to say to you. But to chalk up modern social inequity and state-sanctioned violence against certain communities to being “merely” a racially-biased phenomenon and simply leave it at that is insufficient. There’s something deeper…

Reese Witherspoon graced the 2024 Critics Choice Awards with a fashionable companion – none other than her daughter, Ava Phillippe. The actress, nominated in the category of best actress for her portrayal of news anchor Bradley Jackson in Apple TV+'s The Morning Show, showcased her style alongside her equally chic daughter. HT Image Witherspoon posted pictures of their outfits on Instagram, captioning it as a "mother-daughter date night." Amazon Sale season is here! Splurge and save now! Click here Red Carpet…

The world is coming to an end. In a period known as The After, on a coastal area called The Spit, Ava and Anna are waiting for The Wave. Ava, a young woman who sells sex in the woods, is obsessed with Anna: older, wealthier, an influencer and kept wife who has recently lost her daughter Ada to anorexia. Both Anna and Ava are disaffected, distanced from their broken environment and from themselves. Anna makes regular visits to an unspecified location where she asks people to beat her up “just to check I could still…

Ava Benny-Morrison / Bloomberg: US federal prosecutors charge Tingo Group founder Mmobuosi Odogwu Banye with securities fraud in New York, accusing him of massively inflating Tingo's finances — - Criminal charges follow SEC lawsuit against Dozy Mmobuosi — Mmobuosi is still ‘at large,’ federal prosecutors in NY said Ava Benny-Morrison / Bloomberg: US federal prosecutors charge Tingo Group founder Mmobuosi Odogwu Banye with securities fraud in New York, accusing him of…

Trauma is inescapable in the first trailer for Origin, Ava DuVernay‘s forthcoming film chronicling Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Isabel Wilkerson as she sits in generation-spanning grief to write the haunting book Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents. The film hits theaters Jan. 19. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAweg5PaMuw “If you look closely, you can see something tragic is happening,” Wilkerson, portrayed by Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, states in the trailer. As she speaks from a podium, the image of…