Silver Screen Approved: The Top 5 Actors from Hip-Hop
On five great actors who made the leap from Hip-Hop to the silver screen.
Black Writers Week
I Have to Love My Characters: Peter Strickland on Flux Gourmet
An interview with the director of In Fabric, The Duke of Burgundy, and this week’s Flux Gourmet.
A New Class Of Filmmakers: ABFF and HBO Short Film Award Finalists Bring Their Stories To Life
A discussion with short filmmakers from this year’s American Black Film Festival.
The Antagonism of Blackness in Netflix’s Stranger Things
A feature that looks at how Stranger Things uses and films its Black characters.
Considering Easy To Get: World War II Army Training Films, Segregation, Black Uplift and VD
A feature on the industry of military training films that have been lost to history, including one starring Ruby Dee.
Preview: Black Writers Week 2022 Kicks off on Juneteenth, Runs Through Sunday, June 26th
A preview of Black Writers Week 2022, which kicks off on Juneteenth (Sunday, June 19th), and runs through Sunday, June 26th.
Meet the Guest Editors of Black Writers Week 2022
Meet the Guest Editors of Black Writers Week 2022: Robert Daniels, Sergio Mims and Danielle Scruggs.
Why I Chose Family Law Over Business Law
An essay from Andre Hammel, Esq., about how his new alternative system in family law helps to advocate for a better co-parenting outcome.
Mark Harris Joins The Media Lounge to Discuss White People Money
A chance to hear Chicago filmmaker Mark Harris discuss the production of his latest, White People Money, with the Media Lounge Podcast.
A Crime on the Bayou
Filmmaker Nancy Buirski has an elegant, judicious way of imparting the facts of the case, taking not just the political temperature of the moment (boiling) but finely sketching the character and minds of the people involved.
Luca
Luca retreads too much well-cultivated ground and reworks so many achingly familiar tropes as its best qualities sink to a murky bottom.
Fatherhood
I can’t help but mourn the movie this could have been had the filmmakers written a movie that suited Hart instead of using him as a substitute.
Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go For It
Moreno, who is both brash and self-effacing, thoughtful and charismatic, has such a commanding presence on camera; every time she speaks, you unintentionally lean in a little closer, hanging on to every word she has to say.
Rise Again: Tulsa and the Red Summer
Though its forecasting might be overly optimistic, Rise Again is a documentary that I’m glad exists. I just hope that the audiences who could really learn something from it take the time to watch it.
Siberia
At the end, all we’re left to wonder is what does it all mean? It all means whatever you want it to mean.
Sweet Thing
Alexandre Rockwell’s Sweet Thing is a welcome return to form for the accomplished indie filmmaker.
The Serpent
A start-to-finish train wreck, a laughable piece of “cinema” made by people who really have no business making movies.
Juneteenth Becomes Our Nation’s Second Official Independence Day
An article about the historic Juneteenth becoming a federal holiday commemorating the end of slavery
A Letter to Roger Ebert from a Former Ebert Fellow
A former Ebert Fellow writes Roger Ebert a letter to close out Black Writers Week.
