Coming off the box office success of “Creed III,” actress Tessa Thompson is already putting together new projects, such as the sci-fi film “Ash” from Flying Lotus and more “Creed-related film/television spinoffs that could involve her character, Bianca. But there’s more. The Hollywood Reporter is adding one more to the mix, “Hedda,” that will see Thompson reunite with director Nia DaCosta.

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In the 1973 landmark decision known as Roe v. Wade, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Constitution of the United States protects a pregnant person’s liberty to choose to have an abortion – without excessive governmental restrictions. The first recorded abortion was in 1550 and has been a fact of life since ancient times. However, it took that decision in 1973 to reinforce that this health service was a right in this country. According to The Atlantic, the year after the decision the maternal mortality rate in New York State dropped by 45 percent.

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As was the case with this month’s television, it’s still the final season of “Game of Thrones” that’s going to steal away much of the conversation in April. But on the film side of things, ‘Thrones’ has some serious competition thanks to a little indie called “Avengers: Endgame” at the end of the month. Marvel Studios dominates the box office on a yearly basis. But, in between the moments where people are waiting in queue online for their tickets and paying repeat visits to the theaters to see their favorite superheroes once again duke it out with Thanos, there are plenty of other features worth seeking out at your local theater.

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2018 may have revitalized the “Year of the Woman” in politics, but it was also an outstanding year for female filmmakers. Auteurs like Karyn Kusama (“Destroyer”), Debra Granik (“Leave No Trace”), and Lynne Ramsay (“You Were Never Really Here”) produced jaw-dropping independent dramas while smaller names like Jennifer Fox (“The Tale”), Chloe Zhao (“The Rider”), and Josephine Decker (“Madeline’s Madeline”) pushed the boundaries of filmmaking to create challenging works of art.

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Tessa Thompson is a joy to watch on screen in just about every film she’s in. Whether she’s a drunk female warrior/superhero in “Thor: Ragnarok” or an offbeat artist in the underrated “Sorry to Bother You,” the actress brings something special to each role she takes. And her hot streak of quality performances continues in the upcoming “Little Woods.”

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In the new trailer for the film that premiered at last year’s Tribeca, we meet Ollie (Thompson), a young woman that got busted for bringing a load of drugs over from Canada to her small town in North Dakota to help her ill mother.

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We are robots. We cover film and our best of year-end lists cover every single possible angle of film and TV. And yes, we’re oh so tired and we hope this doesn’t feel too perfunctory. Look, we’ve covered, as suggested, every stripe of 2018 movie and TV coverage performances, new directors, breakout actors and actresses, documentaries, all kinds of new exciting talents and each year we say to ourselves, “eh, let’s dial this back, it’s too much, no one cares that much do they?” And each year we find ourselves going, “Oooh, ooh, oooh!

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Director Nia DaCosta offers a rare and insightful look at the life of America’s struggling working class with the exceptional modern-day Western”Little Woods.” An impressive directorial debut, DaCosta captures the hardship of economical depression in a manner that feels acutely reflective of where the troubled country stands today. “Little Woods” offers no glamor or pity, only empathy for those trapped in a system that gives them few choices.

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