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Photo by Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic Critics are blasting The Walt Disney Company with accusations of discrimination over alleged double standards concerning the Jonathan Majors and Gina Carano scandals.  The media juggernaut is under fire in light of its inaction following Majors’ shocking arrest over allegations of intimate partner violence. Many people point to Disney’s seemingly swift dismissal of Carano from The Mandalorian after she repeatedly shared incendiary views on her social media accounts.  Gina…

Gina Prince-Bythewood will receive the Pinnacle of Excellence Award at the Black Business Association’s 2023 Salute to Black Women business conference. Prince-Bythewood will be recognized not only for her award-winning directing, writing and producing but also for her decades-long career and philanthropic efforts, one of which includes funding a scholarship for Black students in UCLA’s film program. The Woman King filmmaker is one of eight honorees set to receive an award at the organization’s…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeThe Woman King director Gina Prince-Bythewood has said that she will “never get over” the film’s “egregious” snub at the Oscars.Starring Viola Davis as the fictionalised leader of the real-life Agojie tribe, the film follows an elite unit of all-female warriors active in the historical kingdom of Dahomey. Thuso Mbedu, Lashana Lynch and Sheila Atim also star.The film secured nominations…

I Play My Bass Loud, the debut solo record by film-maker, painter and punk musician Gina Birch, is an album of manifestos. The title track is a Walk on the Wild Side-esque ode to taking up space with an instrument usually seen as auxiliary. There are songs raging against injustice and about proudly branding yourself a feminist. And then there’s I Will Never Wear Stilettos, an anarchic, tongue-in-cheek dub song about the virtues of comfortable footwear. “In punk, shoes seemed to be quite important. We wore brothel creepers…

The Black Women Film Network will honor Danielle Deadwyler, Gina Prince-Bythewood and Tabitha Brown at its eighth annual awards luncheon March 25. Cas Sigers-Beedles, Tammy Williams and Latasha Gillespie will also receive recognition at the in-person event, BWFN Summit, which celebrates the voices of Black women in film and television. Prince-Bythewood will receive RainmakHER award; Deadwyler will be recognized with the Black Woman Rising Award; Brown with the InfluenceHER Award; Gillespie…

Italian actor Gina Lollobrigida, who achieved international film stardom during the 1950s and was dubbed 'the most beautiful woman in the world' after the title of one her movies, died in Rome on Monday, her agent said. She was 95. At the height of her fame in the 1950s and 1960s, Lollobrigida, who was known simply as La Lollo, was the internationally recognised star of Italian post-war cinema, rivalled only by Sophia Loren. When she stopped making…

Italian actor Gina Lollobrigida, one of the last icons of the Golden Age of Hollywood, has died aged 95, culture minister Gennaro Sangiuliano announced Monday. "Farewell to a diva of the silver screen, protagonist of more than half a century of Italian cinema history. Her charm will remain eternal," Sangiuliano wrote after Italy`s ANSA news agency reported her death. Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni also paid tribute to Lollobrigida, famed when younger for her biting wit and sensual beauty, describing the actor as a "great…

The actor Gina Lollobrigida, who has died aged 95, was one of the great film stars of the 1950s and 60s, and an icon of Italian cinema who became known as “the most beautiful woman in the world”.The movie that launched her as a sex symbol was Altri Tempi (Infidelity, 1952), an anthology film directed by Alessandro Blasetti, in which Vittorio De Sica was the lawyer who defends the honour of a woman (Lollobrigida) accused of being too sexy. She was signed up the following year to play opposite Errol Flynn in Crossed Swords…

ROME (AP) — Italian actor Gina Lollobrigida, who achieved international film stardom during the 1950s and was dubbed “the most beautiful woman in the world,” died in Rome on Monday, her agent said. She was 95. The agent, Paola Comin, didn’t provide a cause of death. Lollobrigida had surgery in September to repair a thigh bone broken in a fall. She returned home and said she had quickly resumed walking. “Lollo,” as she was nicknamed by Italians, began making movies in Italy just after the end of World War II, as the…

Gina Lollobrigida, the high-spirited actor who had dual careers in Hollywood and Europe but may be more fondly remembered in her native Italy for jump-starting an era of celebration and indulgence after years of warfare and oppression, has died. She was 95.Forever beloved in her homeland, Lollobrigida died in Rome, the Italian news agency Lapresse said, quoting Tuscany Gov. Eugenio Giani. Lollobrigida was an honorary citizen of a Tuscan town.Her agent, Paola Comin, also confirmed her death but did not give details, the…