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Actors on Actors: Lupita Nyong’o & Melissa McCarthy
Melissa McCarthy is best known for creating outsize comedic characters, but this year she took on a dramatic role in “Can You Ever Forgive Me?,” Marielle Heller’s story of a forger desperately holding onto her place in a gentrifying New York. It’s a turn that’s...
Sly And The Family Stone Doc to See the Light of Day
by Anita Busch | Deadline Hollywood It was 10 years in the making, but a feature documentary about Sly and The Family Stone and their impact on the development of funk, soul, rock, and psychedelic music is on its way. Dance to the Streaming Music, from Winter State...
S&A Pick the 10 Best Films of 2018
by Monique Jones | Shadow and Act It's the end of the year, and it's time to take a look at 2018's best films. This was actually quite a hard list to put together, since there were a ton of great films, ranging from documentaries to foreign films to animated films,...
The Weird Science Of Lakeith Stanfield
by Amy Nicholson | Deadline Hollywood Lakeith Stanfield is headed home. That is, if he can remember where he lives. “I forgot my street,” he chuckles to the driver. He snaps his fingers once, twice, three times, and like magic, summons his address to mind. To be fair,...
Coogler Makes the 2018 T100
by Ava DuVernay | Time Magazine In Black Panther, Queen Ramonda looks upon her son T’Challa and delivers a proclamation: “It is your time.” Millions upon millions of moviegoers around the world have proclaimed the same to the film’s mastermind, Ryan Coogler. We gaze...
Actors on Actors: Regina King & Maggie Gyllenhaal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jm7egYFOXUE Maggie Gyllenhaal and Regina King sat down for a conversation for Variety’s Actors on Actors. For more, click here. Maggie Gyllenhaal’s obsession with one talented student has disastrous consequences in “The Kindergarten...
Actors on Actors: Chadwick Boseman & Viggo Mortenson
Viggo Mortensen (“Green Book”) and Chadwick Boseman (“Black Panther”) believe their films have more in common than meets the eye. Mortensen plays a racist driver in a drama set in the segregated South, while Boseman dons a vibranium suit in the Marvel tentpole as...
How Akin Omotoso Brings Empathy & Authenticity To Filmmaking
by Dino-Ray Ramos | Deadline Hollywood Filmmaker Akin Omotoso’s latest film Vaya first premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2016 to critical praise and continued to make its rounds around the festival circuit and earned him the Africa Movie Academy...
13 Horror Films For A Spooky Halloween
by Monique Jones | Shadow and Act If you're tired of Halloween celebrations that are all pumpkins, candy and costumes over the truly spooky, these 13 Black horror films will put the fear back into your holiday. 1. Blacula Every Black horror film binge should have...
A Crash Course on Blackface
by Jordan Simon | Shadow and Act With Halloween approaching, now is a great time to remind what kinds of costumes are inappropriate and downright unacceptable. In the words of Dear White People's Sam Logan, a list of acceptable costumes includes "pirates, nurses and...
That Mourning Feeling…
The Cosby Prison Sentence: Working While Black by Yasmin Shiraz | Black TV Film Crew Today I heard a colleague rejoice, celebrate, pump her fists, give a high five, do everything but dance in the end zone when she heard that Bill Cosby had been sentenced to three to...