https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiafBEEVaSQ Career Q&A with Tichina Arnold. Moderated by Mike O'Malley. GUEST BIO Tichina Arnold's career has spanned decades. Her many credits include: Ryan's Hope, Martin, Everybody Hates Chris, Happily Divorced and Suvirvors...
By Kelly Kauffman | ScreenRant When it comes to explaining the science behind pop culture, look no further than Neil deGrasse Tyson. From The Martian to Interstellar, fans turn to the astrophysicist for his thorough explanations and dissections of movies with the help...
Elizabeth Wagmeister | Variety Oprah Winfrey, who was selected this year as a Variety Power of Women honoree along with Salma Hayek Pinault, Anna Kendrick, Gwyneth Paltrow and YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki, brought down the house at the Power of Women luncheon, presented...
Q&A with O’Shea Jackson Jr., Jason Mitchell, Corey Hawkins and Director F. Gary Gray. Moderated by Scott Mantz, Access Hollywood. SYNOPSIS In 1987, five young men, using brutally honest rhymes and hardcore beats, put their frustration and anger about life in the...
from NoirKulture.com "Of his own volition, photographer, filmmaker, and oral historian Rev. L.O. Taylor single-handedly documented the African American community in Memphis, Tennessee from the 1920s through the 1960s." -Center for Southern Folklore The films,...
Revisiting Thomas Ikimi’s Underseen 'Legacy' Starring Idris Elba By Tambay A. Obenson | Shadow and Act As I said I would a month ago, when it was announced that writer/director Thomas Ikimi had reunited with Idris Elba for a Fox hour-long drama series titled "The...
By Rob Keyes | ScreenRant It’s been over twelve years (and four Transformers movies) since Michael Bay’s Bad Boys 2 released in theaters in the summer of 2003 and nearly every year since we’ve heard rumblings and quotes teasing that Bad Boys 3 would be coming…...
By Aramide A Tinubu | Shadow and Act Meagan Good has been working in the entertainment industry for well over twenty years. She first burst onto the scene as the troubled and secretive tween, Cicely Batiste in Kasi Lemmons’ 1960’s era “Eve’s Bayou” alongside Samuel L....
By Tambay A. Obenson | Shadow and Act Cinematographer extraordinaire Bradford Young has been named the 2015 Kodak Cinematographer-in-Residence at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television. This is the 16th year of the residency program, which is sponsored by the...
By Tambay A. Obenson | Shadow and Act It continues to be a point of contention, even among black people. Who gets to tell *our* stories? It's a guaranteed debate starter - new film or TV project is announced with black protagonist(s), but non-black creator (writer and...
By Tambay A. Obenson | Shadow and Act In the spring, we learned that Idris Elba had joined the cast of the next "Star Trek" movie (the 3rd one), playing a villain, although, since then, details on who this villain is have been kept tightly underwraps, so we still...
By Andre Seewood | Shadow and Act Much of the power of the film image, excluding for the moment its historical preeminence, resides in its grandeur; its tiny images in multiple millimeters projected over our heads and transformed into gigantic images in multiple...