by Natalie Abrams | Entertainment Weekly ...from her childhood. In it she’s a kindergartner wearing a red, blue, and white jumper, with a ponytail sticking out from her head. “That’s the little girl I remember,” recalls Davis, 49, who grew up in the tiny,...
During the Golden Age of Hollywood when some of the greatest masterpieces in motion picture history were being produced, African filmmakers were not allowed to make films. The period which lasted from the end of the silent era in the late 1920's to the late 1950's did...
It is indeed a wonderful revelation in the history of world cinema that immensely talented women filmmakers of Africa and the African Diaspora are making it really big in innovative filmmaking. Not only are they challenging old cinematic prescriptions, they are also...
After watching QUANTUM OF SOLACE, I came to the realization that no matter who's writing or directing a James Bond movie, the natural tendency is to revert back to the more traditional Bonds. The over the top villains, the womanizing, the exaggerated stunts; they're...
Variety and PBS SoCaL take you inside the biggest Hollywood films of the past year through candid conversations with today's hottest actors. This episode features Gugu Mbatha-Raw & Oscar Isaac.
Q&A with David Oyelowo of SELMA. Moderated by Pete Hammond, Deadline. SYNOPSIS: Selma is the story of a movement. The film chronicles the tumultuous three-month period in 1965, when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. led a dangerous campaign to secure equal voting rights...
Career Q&A with Morgan Freeman. Moderated by Mayank Banerjee.
Q&A with Gugu Mbatha-Raw. Moderated by Oliver Jones. BELLE is inspired by the true story of Dido Elizabeth Belle (Gugu Mbatha-Raw), the illegitimate mixed race daughter of Admiral Sir John Lindsay (Matthew Goode). Raised by her aristocratic great-uncle Lord...
Huffington Post | Gregory Allen Howard, Screenwriter, Writer, Author and Essayist There were several meetings. Eight white men and two white women. Was this a meeting of the Mormon Glee Club? The New White Citizens Council? Perhaps a Klan meeting? No. That meeting was...
Vin Diesel is one of America's most popular action movie stars. Women swoon at the sight of him, and men go to the gym to try to get muscles like his. It seems any summer movie starring Vin Diesel is sure to become a blockbuster. However, this Hollywood star came from...
Q&A with Laverne Cox. Moderated by Mark Peikert, Executive Editor, Backstage. Laverne Cox is an Emmy-nominated actress who can be seen in the Netflix original series “Orange is The New Black” where she plays the ground breaking role of Sophia Burset, an...
Career Q&A with Norm Lewis. Moderated by Richard Ridge, Broadway World. Norm Lewis can currently be seen in A Bed and a Chair: A New York Love Affair, a celebration of songs of Stephen Sondheim presented by City Center Encores! and Jazz at Lincoln Center. Norm was...