Mahershala Ali (“Green Book”) and John David Washington (“BlacKkKlansman”) have catapulted into the awards season conversation with two searing films about race in America. Both movies are based on true stories. Ali, who won the supporting actor Oscar in 2017 for...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RD1AWcu6bwI "What Men Want" stars Tracy Morgan and Taraji P. Henson give each other a lie detector test for Vanity Fair. Could Taraji P. Henson have her own sitcom? Does Tracy think New York is better than Washington D.C.? Who would...
by Aramide A. Tinubu | Shadow and Act Time can mean everything and nothing at all depending on your circumstances. For incarcerated people —specifically those on Death row, and prison employees responsible for ending lives, time is all-consuming. In her masterfully...
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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...
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...
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,...
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,...
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...
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...
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...