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Every Black nominee for 2025 Golden Globes

The Golden Globes are back, and several Black entertainers have earned nods. On Monday (December 9), Mindy Kaling and Morris Chestnut announced the film and...

Farewell Gena Rowlands, the formidable actress whose characters always seemed to be tipping into madness

Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP by Ben McCann, University of Adelaide Gena Rowlands, who has died at the age of 94, was a highly respected actor, with a fierce,...

Making emotional films: The enticing contradictions of Norman Jewison’s movies

Producer-director Norman Jewison, left, demonstrates how he wants an actor to wash the feet of Jesus, portrayed by Ted Neeley, during filming of the...

Malia Obama debuts short film ‘The Heart’ at Sundance

Malia Obama, the daughter of former President Barack Obama, is making her Sundance Film Festival debut. According to People, Malia, 25, is premiering a short...

50 years later, ‘The Exorcist’ continues to possess Hollywood’s imagination, reflecting our obsession with evil

by Regina Hansen, Boston University When the “The Exorcist” premiered 50 years ago, in December 1973, some theatergoers fainted or broke down in tears. A...

Every Black nominee for 2024 Golden Globes

The Golden Globes are back, and a number of Black entertainers have earned nods. On Monday (December 11), Cedric the Entertainer and Wilmer Valderrama announced...

Movie review of the ‘The Burial,’ starring Jamie Foxx and Tommy Lee Jones

by Dwight Brown Film Critic for DwightBrownInk.com and NNPA News Wire (***) It’s an unlikely paring. A 75-year-old, southern white boy and a flashy ambulance-chasing Black lawyer. But...

Blood Sisters: why the mini-series on Netflix sets a new pace for Nollywood

by Ezinne Ezepue, University of Nigeria Nollywood – the Nigerian movie industry – was described as a small screen cinema involving amateurs who produced low...

Sidney Poitier – Hollywood’s first Black leading man reflected the civil rights movement on screen

Sidney Poitier, seen here in a 1980 photograph. Photo by Evening Standard/Getty Images by Aram Goudsouzian, University of Memphis In the summer of 1967, Martin Luther King...

Review: ‘The Best Man Holiday’ overcomes sophomore jinx

Actor Terrence Howard arrives on the red carpet for the world premiere of the feature film "The Best Man Holiday" at the TCL Chinese Theatre on Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2013 in Los Angeles. (Photo by Dan Steinberg/Invision/AP) We’ve waited long enough. After almost 15 years, "The Best Man" (1999) crew has reunited for Christmas at the Sullivan’s in "The Best Man Holiday." The original cast returns starring Morris Chestnut, Taye Diggs, Terrence Howard, Sanaa Lathan, Nia Long, Harold Perrineau, Monica Calhoun, Regina Hall and Melissa De Sousa.

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