Exclusive: Curtiss Cook Jr. (The Day Shall Come) and Gbenga Akinnagbe (The Deuce) are joining the second season of Hulu drama Wu-Tang: An American Saga in recurring roles, portraying two key members of the Wu-Tang Clan universe.
Wu-Tang: An American Saga, from Wu-Tang Clan frontman The RZA, writer Alex Tse, Imagine Television and 20th Television, tells the story of the band starting in early 1990s. It looks at the group’s members, who grew up during the height of the crack cocaine epidemic, and tracks the Clan’s formation — a vision of Bobby Diggs aka The RZA, who strives to unite a dozen young black men who are torn between music and crime but eventually rise to become the unlikeliest of American success stories.
Season 2 picks up six months after the close of Season 1, with the Wu-Tang Clan having to overcome even more obstacles, odds and past beefs as they...
Wu-Tang: An American Saga, from Wu-Tang Clan frontman The RZA, writer Alex Tse, Imagine Television and 20th Television, tells the story of the band starting in early 1990s. It looks at the group’s members, who grew up during the height of the crack cocaine epidemic, and tracks the Clan’s formation — a vision of Bobby Diggs aka The RZA, who strives to unite a dozen young black men who are torn between music and crime but eventually rise to become the unlikeliest of American success stories.
Season 2 picks up six months after the close of Season 1, with the Wu-Tang Clan having to overcome even more obstacles, odds and past beefs as they...
- 6/7/2021
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Spoiler Alert: Do not read if you have not yet watched the series premiere of “The Stand,” streaming now on CBS All Access.
In adapting Stephen King’s 1300-plus page novel “The Stand” for a nine-episode limited series on CBS All Access, showrunner Benjamin Cavell wanted to take a non-linear approach, in part because he didn’t want to spend multiple episodes dealing with the pandemic in the story before getting to the meat of specific characters’ journeys to learn how the Dark Man, a.k.a. Randall Flagg (Alexander Skarsgård), was stirring up chaos out in the west, and to try to put an end to his reign.
But this approach also meant that the majority of central characters in “The Stand” did not get introduced in the first episode — even Randall Flagg himself only gets a quick scene at the end of the episode to show his true face,...
In adapting Stephen King’s 1300-plus page novel “The Stand” for a nine-episode limited series on CBS All Access, showrunner Benjamin Cavell wanted to take a non-linear approach, in part because he didn’t want to spend multiple episodes dealing with the pandemic in the story before getting to the meat of specific characters’ journeys to learn how the Dark Man, a.k.a. Randall Flagg (Alexander Skarsgård), was stirring up chaos out in the west, and to try to put an end to his reign.
But this approach also meant that the majority of central characters in “The Stand” did not get introduced in the first episode — even Randall Flagg himself only gets a quick scene at the end of the episode to show his true face,...
- 12/17/2020
- by Danielle Turchiano
- Variety Film + TV
To mark the release of Gook on 9th April, we’ve been given a copy to give away on DVD.
April 1992: South Central Los Angeles. Eli and Daniel, two Korean-American brothers, struggle to keep their late-fathers shoe store in business in the La neighbourhood of Paramount. Two months behind on rent and indebted to various gangs, the job is only made better by the store’s unofficial third employee, Kamilla, a streetwise 11-year-old African American girl with whom the pair have formed an unlikely friendship.
Kamilla ditches school, Eli stresses over the shop, and Daniel seemingly has his head in the clouds. It’s just another typical day until the Rodney King verdict is read and riots break out. As chaos moves towards them and tensions escalate, the trio are forced to defend the store, witnessing events that will make them contemplate both the future of their own personal...
April 1992: South Central Los Angeles. Eli and Daniel, two Korean-American brothers, struggle to keep their late-fathers shoe store in business in the La neighbourhood of Paramount. Two months behind on rent and indebted to various gangs, the job is only made better by the store’s unofficial third employee, Kamilla, a streetwise 11-year-old African American girl with whom the pair have formed an unlikely friendship.
Kamilla ditches school, Eli stresses over the shop, and Daniel seemingly has his head in the clouds. It’s just another typical day until the Rodney King verdict is read and riots break out. As chaos moves towards them and tensions escalate, the trio are forced to defend the store, witnessing events that will make them contemplate both the future of their own personal...
- 4/7/2018
- by Competitions
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Gook Director: Justin Chon Written by: Justin Chon Cast: Justin Chon, Simone Baker, David So, Curtiss Cook Jr., Sang Chon, Ben Munoz, Omono Okojie Screened at: Critics’ link, NYC, 8/8/17 Opens: August 18, 2017 The pejorative term “gook” was used daily by our servicemen during the Vietnam War. Never mind that the perceived enemy was […]
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- 8/16/2017
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
"Yo, what does that even mean?" Samuel Goldwyn has debuted a full-length official trailer for the film titled Gook, which is a derogatory slang word in America used to describe Asians. This is yet another excellent trailer to follow-up the first one, making me seriously interested in this. The film is directed by Korean American filmmaker/actor Justin Chon, and is about two Korean American kids living in Los Angeles in the early 1990s. It's set against the backdrop of the infamous L.A. Riots during 1992. Starring Justin Chon and David So, as well as Simone Baker, Curtiss Cook Jr., Sang Chon, Omono Okojie, Ben Munoz, Cesar Garcia, Isaiah Jarel, and Kirlew Vilbon. This first premiered at the Sundance Film Festival this year, where it won the Audience Award in the low budget Next section. This is worth a look. Watch below. Here's the full official trailer (+ poster) for Justin Chon's Gook,...
- 6/29/2017
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
"When hate divides, hope remains." Samuel Goldwyn Films has revealed the first trailer for the film titled Gook, which is a derogatory slang word in America used to describe Asians. The film is directed by Korean American filmmaker/actor Justin Chon, and is about two Korean American kids living in Los Angeles in the early 1990s. It's set against the backdrop of the infamous L.A. Riots during 1992. Starring Justin Chon and David So, as well as Simone Baker, Curtiss Cook Jr., Sang Chon, Omono Okojie, Ben Munoz, Cesar Garcia, Isaiah Jarel, and Kirlew Vilbon. This first premiered at the Sundance Film Festival this year, where it won the Audience Award in the low budget Next section. This is a very cool first trailer, I dig. Here's the first official trailer (+ poster) for Justin Chon's Gook, in high def on Apple: Eli (Chon) and Daniel (So) are two Korean...
- 4/27/2017
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Samuel Goldwyn Films announced today the acquisition of North American rights to the 2017 Sundance audience award winner “Gook,” written and directed by Justin Chon, and stars Chon, David So, Curtiss Cook Jr. and newcomer Simone Baker. “Gook” follows Eli (Chon) and… Continue Reading →...
- 4/20/2017
- by shadowandact
- ShadowAndAct
The 2017 Sundance Film Festival is coming to a close with tonight’s awards ceremony. While we’ll have our personal favorites coming early this week, the jury and audience have responded with theirs, topped by Macon Blair‘s I don’t feel at home in this world anymore., which will arrive on Netflix in late February, and the documentary Dina. Check out the full list of winners below see our complete coverage here.
The U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Documentary was presented by Larry Wilmore to:
Dina / U.S.A. (Directors: Dan Sickles, Antonio Santini) — An eccentric suburban woman and a Walmart door-greeter navigate their evolving relationship in this unconventional love story.
The U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic was presented by Peter Dinklage to:
I don’t feel at home in this world anymore. / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Macon Blair) — When a depressed woman is burglarized, she...
The U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Documentary was presented by Larry Wilmore to:
Dina / U.S.A. (Directors: Dan Sickles, Antonio Santini) — An eccentric suburban woman and a Walmart door-greeter navigate their evolving relationship in this unconventional love story.
The U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic was presented by Peter Dinklage to:
I don’t feel at home in this world anymore. / U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Macon Blair) — When a depressed woman is burglarized, she...
- 1/29/2017
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
The stakes feel lower than they should, but as a portrait of youngsters in a tough familial and social position, this is compassionate and engaging. I’m “biast” (pro): nothing
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
Maalik (Curtiss Cook Jr.) and Naz (Kerwin Johnson Jr.) are high-schoolers and best friends in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, and this day-in-the-life is about what you’d expect from two smart, ambitious guys their age who know each other well: they goof off, they try to make a little money for college (they buy and resell lottery tickets, among other small things), they argue over philosophical matters, they just hang out. But the stakes on this day — as depicted by writer-director Jay Dockendorf, making his feature debut — feel very low indeed, when they are, it would appear, anything but. See, Maalik and Naz are black. And Muslim.
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
Maalik (Curtiss Cook Jr.) and Naz (Kerwin Johnson Jr.) are high-schoolers and best friends in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, and this day-in-the-life is about what you’d expect from two smart, ambitious guys their age who know each other well: they goof off, they try to make a little money for college (they buy and resell lottery tickets, among other small things), they argue over philosophical matters, they just hang out. But the stakes on this day — as depicted by writer-director Jay Dockendorf, making his feature debut — feel very low indeed, when they are, it would appear, anything but. See, Maalik and Naz are black. And Muslim.
- 1/21/2016
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
"For the longest time I couldn't put a name to who I was. I didn't have an image to who was like me. It was torturous," Jane Lynch notes in Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema, the savvy documentary from 2006 by Lesli Klainberg and Lisa Ades.
A few minutes after Jane lets loose, Todd Haynes, the director of Carol and Poison, adds, "I think films do make a difference. They get under people's skin, and they reflect our lives and our experiences back to us."
But if you're gay and don't check off Caucasian on various surveys, you have had a harder time finding yourself on the big screen. There's been Pariah (2011), The Watermelon Woman (1996), Brother to Brother (2004), and a handful of others of varying delight. But if you are a gay, black, Muslim teenager residing in Brooklyn and are in love with another gay, black, Muslim teen, where will you get media support?...
A few minutes after Jane lets loose, Todd Haynes, the director of Carol and Poison, adds, "I think films do make a difference. They get under people's skin, and they reflect our lives and our experiences back to us."
But if you're gay and don't check off Caucasian on various surveys, you have had a harder time finding yourself on the big screen. There's been Pariah (2011), The Watermelon Woman (1996), Brother to Brother (2004), and a handful of others of varying delight. But if you are a gay, black, Muslim teenager residing in Brooklyn and are in love with another gay, black, Muslim teen, where will you get media support?...
- 1/21/2016
- by Brandon Judell
- www.culturecatch.com
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