https://youtu.be/aeV3v9Z4Zd4 Pearl Bowser interviewed by filmmaker/archivist Ina Archer on January 16, 2020. Produced by Donald Bogle and Bruce Goldstein. Photographed and edited by William Hohauser.
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S&A’s Top 10 Filmmakers That Defined The Decade
by Shadow and Act This has been an excellent decade for the progression of Black images on screen and Black people behind the scenes. These Black filmmakers helped usher in a new era of Black cinema and defined the 2010s. 10) Tyler Perry Tyler Perry has left an...
Shadow And Act’s Top 60 Black Films Of The Decade
by Shadow and Act As the 2010s come to a close, we’ve compiled a list of the Top 60 Black films of the decade! Did your fave make the cut? 60. The Equalizer Logline: Starring Denzel Washington and directed by Antoine Fuqua, Equalizer follows a man who believes he has...
Actors on Actors: Eddie Murphy & Antonio Banderas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55AOuvO6ll8 In their Actors on Actors conversation, Eddie Murphy talks about returning to "Saturday Night Live" and Antonio Banderas reveals how his priorities in life changed after having a heart attack in 2017.
UASE 2019 Recap!
Greetings, The UASE along with partners HBO, Cinemax and Warner Brothers are bringing access and awareness to Heroes of color celebrating diversity and the multicultural achievements in the blockbuster Action genre. The Urban Action Showcase and Expo (UASE )has become...
Variety’s Worst Films of 2019
By Peter Debruge and Owen Gleiberman | Variety Keep in mind that we haven’t seen “Cats.” Or a single one of the half-dozen Nicolas Cage movies released “on demand” (to zero demand?) this past year. Still, in the ongoing quest to find the next masterpiece, film critics...
Variety Names 10 Directors to Watch for 2020
In advance of the Palm Springs Film Festival, where the talents will be honored, Variety announces 10 breakout filmmakers with promising careers ahead. Before film critics start summing up the present year at the movies with a deluge of Top 10 lists, Variety gazes...
Actors on Actors: Cynthia Erivo & Alfre Woodard
Alfre Woodard and Cynthia Erivo both star in movies helmed by black female directors this year; Woodard in Chinonye Chukwu’s “Clemency” and Erivo in Kasi Lemmons’ “Harriet.” In their “Variety Studio: Actors on Actors” conversation, the two talked about their new...
Big Ticket with Aldis Hodge
By Marc Malkin | Variety The script for “Clemency” wasn’t the only thing Aldis Hodge received from the film’s writer and director Chinonye Chukwu when she approached him about starring in the drama. “Chinonye also wrote a letter to me speaking on her supporting me in...
Kung Fu Drive-In Podcast: Demetrius Angelo
On the Maverick's Dojo interviews we have DEMETRIUS ANGELO founder of THE URBAN ACTION SHOWCASE. He talks about the awesome upcoming event taking place this year in November!
The Impact of ‘For Colored Girls,’ Then and Now
By Gordon Cox | Variety The actress Adrienne C. Moore came off her seven seasons in “Orange Is the New Black” wanting to do work that makes an impact — and this fall, she’s doing it with an Off Broadway revival of Ntozake Shange’s rarely-seen, landmark theater piece,...
Could ‘Just Mercy’ Set a New Standard for Inclusion?
By Brent Lang | Variety Social justice activist and attorney Bryan Stevenson has done a lot in his 59 years on this earth. He’s argued and won cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. He created a museum on the history of lynching, slavery and racial discrimination and a...