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On Feb. 18, 2022, “Uncharted” was released in theaters. The film stars Tom Holland as Nathan Drake, Mark Wahlberg as Victor “Sully” Sullivan, and Sophia Taylor Ali as Chloe Frazer. It opened to overwhelmingly negative critical reviews, and underwhelming box office results, making only 51 million dollars in its opening weekend and one of very few movies to make less than a 1 thousand dollar-per-theater average.

Growing up as a young Black man trying to navigate this world is hard. From a young age, I was taught survival skills that I will have to live with for the rest of my life.

The Netflix limited series “Inventing Anna,” created by Shonda Rhimes, was released on Feb. 11, 2022. The show stars Julia Garner, Anna Chlumsky, Laverne Cox, Katie Lowes, Alexis Floyd, and more.

Jon Favreau’s “The Book of Boba Fett” premiered on Disney Plus starting Dec. 29, 2021. The show stars Temuera Morrison as Boba Fett, Ming-Na Wen as Fennec Shand, Pedro Pascal as The Mandalorian, and many more special cameos. The show takes place just after the events of the second season of Jon Favreau’s other show “The Mandalorian,”  and it follows a wounded Boba Fett on his journey to take over Mos Espa as its benevolent crime boss.

This year provided millions of people with new songs and special albums that deserve to be recognized. This coming Sunday, April 3, is the 64th Annual Grammy Awards, a night that celebrates the music industry and all the art that singers and musicians have created in the past year.

“Don’t Look Up” was released on Dec. 5, 2021 on Netflix and in theaters. The film follows Leonardo Dicaprio as Dr. Randall Mindy, a socially anxious, good hearted astronomy professor, and Jennifer Lawrence as doctoral candidate Kate Dibiasky.

The manga “JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure” has recently released its sixth part “JoJo Stone Ocean” on Netflix. JoJo’s anime adaptation is being handled by David Productions, an anime production company which has been in charge of the adaptation since 2012.

One of Netflix’s Original limited series, “The Queen’s Gambit,” was first released on Netflix on Oct. 23, 2020. This captivating show directed by Scott Frank and starring Anya Taylor-Joy has won 11 Grammys and is critically acclaimed among many.

Denis Villeneuve’s “Dune” came out on Oct. 22, 2021, and made $40.1 million in the box office. This would not classify the movie as a hit by any means, but it’s still respectable. The book “Dune” from 1965 served as the influence for the “Dune” film, as well as “Star Wars” and “Star Trek.” I chronicled much of Dune’s rich filmography in another article. However, the focus of this piece is on only one part of Dune’s filmography, the newest quagmire in the Dune franchise, Dune 2021.