Film
Director Shaka King’s Journey From ‘Newlyweeds’ To ‘The Black Messiah’
by Andrew Limbong As the current chairman of the Black Panther Party Cubs, Fred Hampton, Jr. was guarded →
Justin Timberlake Hopes ‘Palmer’ Will ‘Open Eyes, And Open Ears, And Open Hearts’
by Scott Simon In the new film Palmer, Justin Timberlake plays Eddie, a former high school football star who comes back to his Louisiana hometown after more than a decade in prison. As he pieces together his new life, Eddie moves in with his grandmother and befriends her young neighbor, a boy named Sam. Sam is funny →
Polish Thriller ‘Spoor’ Is A Pulpy Murder Story — And A Utopian Fable
by John Powers During the Cold War, the movies we saw from the Eastern bloc were steeped in →
‘Soul’ Is A Jazzy, Joyful Celebration Of Life
by Linda Holmes, Stephen Thompson, Aisha Harris and Glen Weldon In Disney and Pixar’s Soul, a jazz musician voiced by Jamie Foxx falls down a manhole and finds himself teetering between life and the afterlife. He winds up on a New York adventure with a wandering soul, voiced by Tina Fey, who needs help getting ready →
‘Jingle Jangle’ Director David E. Talbert Calls Film ‘A Love Letter To My Childhood’
by Michel Martin and Janaya Williams Whimsical, larger-than-life movie protagonists — Ebenezer Scrooge, Caractacus Potts, Mary Poppins, Willy →
Let Us Be Your +1 To ‘The Prom’
by Glen Weldon, Aisha Harris, Mark Blankenship and Margaret H. Willison Based on a sudsy, splashy 2018 Broadway →
‘Mank’ Takes On Hollywood Politics And The Legend of ‘Citizen Kane’
by Stephen Thompson, Aisha Harris, Bilal Qureshi, and Monica Castillo Starring Gary Oldman and Amanda Seyfried, Mank captures the artistic →
Alt.Latino Film Festival: Fandangos And Mockingbirds
by Felix Contreras This fall, Mexican folk music takes the spotlight in two separate documentaries. Linda and the Mocking Birds takes a trip to a small town in northern Mexico with Linda Ronstadt. She accompanies a group of young musicians and dancers from the Bay Area cultural group Los Cenzontles, which translates to “mockingbirds.” For decades, Ronstadt has →