Cassie da Costa

Former Entertainment Writer

Would You Survive Her Gaslighting Mother-in-Law from Hell?

Rising star Tamara Lawrance captivates in a dark new thriller, in which invasive in-laws and the white (medical) patriarchy put a reluctant mother-to-be at risk.

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#BRAVE

Memo to the Avengers: No One Is ‘Bullying’ Chris Pratt

None of the Marvel actors who defended Pratt spoke up for Tessa Thompson or Brie Larson, who endured racist and misogynist—respectively, and for Thompson, both—attacks from fans.

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RACE AGAINST TIME

He Got 60 Years Behind Bars. She’s Fighting for His Life.

Filmmaker Garrett Bradley talks to Cassie da Costa about “Time,” a powerful new doc chronicling Fox Richardson’s fight to free her husband from Louisiana State Penitentiary.

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WITH FRIENDS LIKE THESE

Ice Cube’s Foolish Collaboration With the Trump Campaign

The rapper and actor, who has a long history of anti-Semitism, worked with the Trump team on their “Platinum Plan,” a last-ditch effort to curry favor with Black Americans.

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CUTTING THROUGH THE BS

The Film About Socialism the GOP Doesn’t Want You to See

Yael Bridge’s “The Big Scary ‘S’ Word” examines the history of socialism and why so many Americans have been conditioned to reject a philosophy that’s in their best interests.

Cassie da Costa

Cassie da Costa

Would You Survive Her Gaslighting Mother-in-Law from Hell?

Memo to the Avengers: No One Is ‘Bullying’ Chris Pratt

He Got 60 Years Behind Bars. She’s Fighting for His Life.

Ice Cube’s Foolish Collaboration With the Trump Campaign

The Film About Socialism the GOP Doesn’t Want You to See

Inside the Top-Secret Film Exposing Trump’s COVID Cover-Up

Why Is Ava DuVernay Targeting Black Women?

Steve McQueen and John Boyega Try to Take on Racist Policing

Hollywood’s Rich and Famous Want You to Calm Down

Exposing Trump’s Ugly Fearmongering Over the Migrant Caravan