Tag: Colman Domingo
Mikey Madison, Zoe Saldaña, Kieran Culkin, Adrien Brody & More – What are the Oscar Actors Class of ’25 Working on Next?
Yesterday, we explored the creative futures for sixteen filmmakers who received nominations in the most prominent categories at this year's Oscars. For many of...
2024 Golden Globe Awards: Emilia Pérez, The Brutalist & Anora Take Pole Positions
It'll be a Cannes Film Festival competition rematch alongside the critical darling (Best Director) winning competition film from the Venice Film Festival. Emilia Pérez...
2024 Gothams: Sean Baker’s Anora Lands Four Noms; Payal Kapadia & RaMell Ross in the Mix
The notoriously unpredictable and always confusing Gotham Awards revealed their nominations for the upcoming 34th gala, with Sean Baker’s Anora leading the pack. Anora...
It’s Not All Black & White: Colman Domingo to Direct Sydney Sweeney & David Jonsson in ‘Scandalous’
As a filmmaker, you always want to have irons in the fire. So after an earlier in the year mention of making a Nat...
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Ethan Coen’s Drive-Away Dolls
When Focus Features moved Ethan Coen's Drive-Away Dolls from the fall festival slate to it's current February 23rd release date we can imagine that...
Tallahassee Trippin’: Ethan Coen’s “Drive-Away Dolls” Set for Awards & Fest Season Spotlight
And here we have it. It's called Drive-Away Dolls. It's dropping on September 22nd. Telluride, Venice Film Festival and TIFF programmers have their tasers...
2021 Gotham Awards Noms: Test Pattern Lands Trio; Gyllenhaal’s “The Lost Daughter” to Duke it Out with Rebecca Hall’s “Passing”
An indie film that had it's world premiere at the Blackstar Film Festival (coined as the Black Sundance) in 2019 and was released by...
Candyman [Video Review]
Sweet Heat: DaCosta Resurrects a Darkness in Spiritual Sequel
Back in 1991, Bernard Rose’s Candyman rose to prominence as one of the few mainstream American...
A Tale of Ordinary Madness: Bravo Delivers a Cinematic Unicorn – Zola [Video Review]
A Tale of Ordinary Madness: Bravo Delivers a Cinematic Unicorn
Cinematic innovators are few and far between, but a blazing hot anomaly is revealed in...
Video Interview: Janicza Bravo – Zola
We could label Janicza Bravo's sophomore feature as a road-trip misadventure and about getting a raw deal in a set number of twitter character...
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom [Video Review]
It’s Rainey’s Men: Wolfe Wows with Ardent Adaptation of Eloquent Wilson Play
August Wilson, arguably the most notable and influential Black playwright lionized for his...
2020 Sundance Film Festival: Janicza Bravo’s Zola, Josephine Decker’s Shirley & Eliza Hittman’s Never Rarely Sometimes Always in U.S. Dramatic Comp
Among the sixteen narrative feature films announced today all vying for Grand Jury Prize Award we have highly anticipated items from Janicza Bravo (Zola),...
Lucy in the Sky | Review
Loosey Goosey: Hawley Gets Histrionic with Uneven Melodrama
At the end of Now, Voyager (1942) the chain-smoking Bette Davis delivers her iconic line to Paul...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #10. Janicza Bravo’s Zola
Zola
A Sundance NEXT section revelation with her directorial debut in 2016's Lemon (we were fans earlier on with her short work), we're expecting Janicza...
If Beale Street Could Talk | Review
I Can Feel the Beale: Jenkins Does Justice to Classic Baldwin Novel
Following his history making Best Picture winner Moonlight, stakes are set high for...
Interview: Olivia Newman – First Match | 2015 January Screenwriters Lab
Selected for SXSW Film Festival's Narrative Feature Competition, Olivia Newman's First Match (read review) picked up an audience award before quickly bowing over at Netflix....
First Match | Review
Newman Delivers a Nuanced Portrayal of a Troubled Wrestling Prodigy
The physicality of wrestling lends itself to cinema, each movement part of a ballet. Matches...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #3. Barry Jenkins’ If Beale Street Could Talk
If Beale Street Could Talk
Film historians will likely do a poor job in describing the resounding support, everyone onboard and all-aboard of the Moonlight...
Top 100 Most Anticipated American Indie Films of 2018: #89. Olivia Newman’s First Match
First Match
Based on the 2000 award-winning short (it played at the New York Film Fest), shot in Brooklyn, the feature film version was workshopped...
2018 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Olivia Newman’s First Match
Every edition of the Sundance Film Festival we find at least one of them. One of the festival's superpowers is short film programming, and...
2017 IFP Week: Latest from Falardeau, Menon, Cassidy & Shatzky, Clea DuVall & Franka Potente Among Co-Prod Market
Tucked in between spaces occupied by Venice and Toronto and NYFF, is the indispensable IFP Week. A summit slash showcase for true independent visions...
