Barkhad Abdi

Black actors don’t get loads of movie offers after they are nominated (or win) Academy Awards, it just doesn’t work that way… “Captain Phillips” actor…

03/04/14- Tom and the crew open the show talking about Mardi Gras, Barkhad Abdi’s budding career, Pope Francis dropping the F-bomb and one Kenyan pastor’s strange request for female members of his congregation.

The Gulf of Aden is one of the most dangerous areas of the high seas in the world. Off the coast of Somalia, which has no functioning government after years of famine and war, the Gulf is patrolled by pirates. The pirates have captured commercial and private vessels and held ships and crew for millions […]

It’s Barkhad Abdi from “Captain Phillips”! Do you see the resemblance?

The con-artist comedy “American Hustle and the 3-D space odyssey “Gravity” lead the Academy Awards with 10 nominations each, with the historical epic “12 Years a Slave” trailing closely with nine nominations. The nominations, announced Thursday morning in Beverly Hills, Calif. , set up an apparent three-horse race between three very different films, all of […]