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Chadwick Boseman Michael B. Jordan Lupita Nyong’o Ryan Coogler, Director  Probably should have seen Black Panther before Wonder Woman .   Because there’s this one thing that a person can’t help thinking after  seeing Wonder Woman.   Let's just cut to it :   T’Challa ( Chadwick Boseman ) was a great king.   Loved him.   Pledged my allegiance.   Hated – no really! – hated to see him go.   But when they found him still alive after he took a brutal beating from Erik Killmonger ( Michael B. Jordan ); after Killmonger threw him over the cliff and he fell so far that he started to shrink in our vision before he hit the water below; after we KNEW he was dead; you’re not gonna have Nakia ( Lupita Nyong'o )challenge the new, evil King and throw his ass over the waterfall?   You’re not gonna have T’Challa’s queen-apparent rise to assume the throne? No really - you’re gonna have that ‘miracle’ t...

Marshall (2017) Chadwick Boseman Josh Gad Reginald Hudlin, Director How did Thurgood Marshall get to be Thurgood Marshall ?  The movie which bears his name opens at a point in his life when he’s already successful, having founded the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ’s Legal Defense and Education Fund – when he was 32!  By this time he had argued and won  cases before the Maryland Supreme Court and the United States Supreme Court. “I’ll take care of the big picture,” Marshall (played by Chadwick Boseman ) tells his confused and struggling conscripted co-counsel Sam Friedman (played by Josh Gad ) who must learn the nitty gritty of defending a black man, Joseph Spell (played by Sterling K.Brown ), accused of raping a white socialite (played by Kate Hudson ), in a racist system that almost certainly guaranteed failure. Marshall knew the importance of this milestone case, but he never lost sight of his bigger, ...