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Tina Documentary Directors Talk About Making an Artist’s Final Statement

HBO’s feature documentary Tina is an intimate overview of Tina Turner, the person behind the musical icon. It is also a final statement, as the singer is moving on from the performance part of her life. The documentary tells Tina’s story the way the singer wanted it told: honestly. Some of Turner’s musical highpoints are skipped, like her scene-stealing role as the Acid Queen in Tommy or her appearance on the bulk of Frank Zappa’s Overnight Sensation. But the story of her early rise to fame, and the oppressive influence her musical mentor, husband and onstage partner Ike Turner had…
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Link Tank: Artist Tyler Stout Releases New Terminator Poster

Check out this amazing The Terminator poster by artist Tyler Stout, which spotlights the T-800 and more. “The release of a new Tyler Stout poster is an event. In the pop culture art world, few artists command as much anticipation and excitement as the one behind some of the best posters ever for Akira, Kill Bill, The Thing, and Star Wars.” Read more at Gizmodo. Marvel has revealed a mural done in Black Panther star Chadwick Boseman’s honor in Downtown Disney District in California’s Disneyland. “We are all still coping with the loss of Chadwick Boseman. The 43-year-old star died…
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The Artist’s Wife

Claire (Lena Olin) lives a quiet domestic life in the Hamptons as the wife of celebrated artist Richard Smythson (Bruce Dern). Once a promising painter herself, Claire now lives in the shadow of her husband’s illustrious career. While preparing work for his final show, Richard’s moods become increasingly erratic, and he is diagnosed with dementia. As his memory and behavior deteriorate, she shields his condition from the art community while trying to reconnect him with his estranged daughter and grandson from a previous marriage. Challenged by the loss of her world as she knew it, Claire must now decide whether…
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Death Stranding and Metal Gear Solid Artist Yoji Shinkawa on Creating Iconic Video Game Art

Death Stranding is one of the most bizarre and unique games ever made, which isn’t so surprising when you consider it’s the first project from an independent Kojima Productions, where the legendary video game auteur Hideo Kojima is finally completely free to let his imagination run wild. Setting players on a grueling trek across a post-apocalyptic United States while delivering valuable cargo along the way, Death Stranding may be Kojima’s most divisive game (although I love it). Some have labeled it a “walking simulator” while others hail it as a prescient work of art that may even have predicted the…
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The Disaster Artist

With The Disaster Artist, James Franco transforms the tragicomic true-story of aspiring filmmaker and infamous Hollywood outsider Tommy Wiseau ? an artist whose passion was as sincere as his methods were questionable ? into a celebration of friendship, artistic expression, and dreams pursued against insurmountable odds. Based on Greg Sestero?s best-selling tell-all about the making of Tommy's cult-classic disasterpiece The Room (?The Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made?), The Disaster Artist is a hilarious and welcome reminder that there is more than one way to become a legend? and no limit to what you can achieve when you have absolutely no…
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