Aramide A. Tinubu | Shadow and Act In the 1970s, comedian Rudy Ray Moore was forcefully pushed out of entertainment. Though he'd seen some minor success with a few albums and some work in comedy, doors quickly closed in his face. Against all rational sense, and with...
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By Variety Staff| Variety Variety has announced its 10 Screenwriters to Watch for 2019, an honor the publication has bestowed for over a decade. This year’s honorees will be feted in the October 8th issue of Variety as well as at a reception at the Mill Valley Film...
Variety Staff | Variety Variety has announced its 10 Actors to Watch for 2019, an honor the publication has bestowed since 1998. Past honorees include many future Oscar winners and nominees, such as Mahershala Ali, Timothée Chalamet, Viola Davis, Octavia Spencer, Brie...
by Jordan Simon | Shadow and Act Since the announcement that Mahershala Ali will be portraying Blade, fans all over Twitter have been giving their two-cents on who should direct the Moonlight actor in the highly anticipated MCU reboot. We here at S&A have decided...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYNErWAlNo4 When asked about his most memorable fan moment for his role on “Pose,” Billy Porter says that the conversations he has with “little black sissy boys” stand out. “I’m so moved by all the people but really, particularly, the...
By Geoff Boucher | Deadline Hollywood The Civil War masterpiece Glory return to theaters today from Fathom Events (under the banner of its TCM Big Classic Series) to mark the film’s 30th anniversary. Directed by Edward Zwick off a screenplay by Kevin Jarre, the...
From prestige TV to tentpole franchises to the Coachella DJ tent, the British actor is a poster boy for 21st-century fame: multidisciplinary, omnipresent, engaging. So what does Idris Elba want to do next? And what do we want from him? He’s smooth—obviously. And tall....
by Nadine Matthews | Shadow and Act Donald Bogle is America’s foremost Black film historian. The University of Pennsylvania and New York University professor has authored six books on the subject of the Black presence and image on the big screen. His first book, Toms,...
by Monique Jones | Shadow and Act We've been in the midst of a Black film renaissance, but we've been in the middle of one before--in the 1990s. What makes this renaissance different than the last one? The New York Times gathered together several Black filmmakers who...
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