African American Film Critics Association has released its annual list of recipients for the 12th AAFCA Awards with Judas and the Black Messiah being named the year's Best Picture by the world's largest group of Black film critics. The Fred Hampton-Bill O’Neal drama took home the most awards with a Breakout Director…
When the documentary Summer of Soul (…Or, When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised) sold for a record $12 million+ out of Sundance, it was just the latest piece of good news in a breakthrough year for production house Concordia Studio.
The company, founded in 2017 by Oscar winner Davis Guggenheim and Laurene Powell…
The long-delayed Academy Museum of Motion Pictures looks like it is finally ready for its close-up.
Ava DuVernay, Ryan Murphy and Jason Blum will be spearheading plans for the gala opening on September 25, 2021 as part of a weeklong program of celebrations leading to its official unveiling for the public September 30…
After dealing with a narcissist in the White House for four years, it may be difficult to imagine a politician who doesn't make everything about themself. But consider Stacey Abrams, the former Georgia gubernatorial candidate, who nearly won election in 2018 to become the country's first Black woman governor.
After…
The 15 shortlisted films vying to become one of the five Best International Feature nominees at the 2021 Academy Awards are a surprising and creatively engaging bunch. Their stories often are drenched in history — much of it tragic and disturbing — and turbulent social and political currents course through any number…
EXCLUSIVE: The late Audrey Wells was a prolific screenwriter and director whose work focused on strong female characters, from 2003’s Under the Tuscan Sun and 1999’s Guinevere through to 2018’s The Hate U Give. That trend continued with Over the Moon, Netflix’s animated musical about based on a Chinese myth about a…
The Producers Guild has pulled back the curtain on its PGA Awards nominations for theatrical motion pictures, animated features, TV series and specials and televised/streamed motion pictures. See the full list below.
Vying in the marquee category — the Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Outstanding Producer of Theatrical…
When visual effects supervisor Michael Fong and effects supervisor Bill Watral boarded Soul, they were each a bit intimidated, immediately recognizing the film as one of frighteningly novel ambitions. Meditating on the origins of the human personality, Pixar's latest would require them to bring to life characters and…
An 83-year-old man goes undercover in a nursing home in The Mole Agent, Chilean director Maite Alberdi's Oscar hopeful that's been shortlisted for both International Feature and Documentary. While it's filmed and scored in the style of a playful spy movie, it's most remarkable in its quieter moments, as the true heart…
The doings of the international art world often seem arcane and over the top, but never moreso than as depicted in The Man Who Sold His Skin. This is a madly dramatic and engrossing melodrama about a political refugee whose unique predicament bundles with it issues pertaining to personal and political identity, the…
The nightmarish cruelty of the Bosnian Serbs' genocidal assault on the Bosnian Muslim town of Srebrenica in July, 1995 is vividly and nightmarishly rendered in the curiously titled Quo Vadis, Aida? Ferocious and lucid, director Jasmila Zbanic's film relentlessly pushes to the heart of the matter while accompanying a…
Last week, Chadwick Boseman won a posthumous Golden Globe for his role in Ma Rainey's Black Bottom and the celebration of the late, great actor’s work continued on Sunday night as he, once again, won for his performance in the George C. Wolfe’s adaptation of the iconic August Wilson play.
Boseman's wife Taylor Simone…
