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By Dwight Brown (NNPA Newswire Film Critic) The New York Film Festival celebrated its 54th year by trying something new. For the first time in history,...
[FORWARDTIMES.COM/NNPA MEMBER] Oprah Winfrey is learning a thing or two from her network’s new drama series ‘Queen Sugar.’ The veteran talk show host revealed to Entertainment...
Bruna Nessif, ENTERTAINMENT ONLINE (EOnline.com) – Oh, the Emmy Awards were tonight? That’s cool. It seems like the glitz, glam and honors given out...
Chevel Johnson, ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A native son, a film director, a gospel giant and an award-winning journalist are among the 2015...
(The Washington Post) – Most of the people who hold jobs behind the camera in Hollywood are white and male, and despite the recent unflattering coverage...
Stacia L. Brown, THE WASHINGTON POST (The Washington Post) — Ava DuVernay, director of the Academy Award-nominated film “Selma,” spent all of this Wednesday...
Lydia O’Connor, THE HUFFINGTON POST (The Huffington Post) — Barbie just got a whole lot more badass. Mattel announced Friday that the company is honoring...
Natalie Robehmed, FORBES (Forbes.com) — The Academy Award-winning epic Selma is on its way to the classroom. Paramount Home Media Distribution announced today that every...
JAKE COYLE, AP Film Writer NEW YORK (AP) — It was a year ago that Lupita Nyong’o, shortly before winning the Academy Award for best supporting...
(Entertainment Weekly) – Selma director Ava DuVernay is taking her talents to the small screen to direct CBS’ For Justice pilot. For Justice is based on James Patterson’s The Thomas Berryman Number, a...
(CBS News) – The director of the new movie celebrating Martin Luther King, Jr. and civil rights tells Bob Simon that filming it on a...
LYNN ELBER, AP Television Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Oprah Winfrey and the director of the Oscar-nominated movie “Selma” are creating a drama series for Winfrey’s...
SANDY COHEN, AP Entertainment Writer PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — One of the most buzzed-about movies at this year’s Sundance Film Festival is “Dope,” a coming-of-age...
(New York Times) – The American movie mainstream needs a revolution — and if some women have their way, it just might get one. It’s...
(USA Today) – One year ago, 12 Years A Slave triumphed as Oscars’ best picture — the first time the top prize went to a film directed...
(The Washington Post) – It’s altogether fitting that a movie called “Whiplash” was the last one named Thursday when the nominations for best picture were announced by...
Jennifer Brett, THE ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION LOS ANGELES (AJC.com)—“Selma” was up for four Golden Globes awards Sunday night and while it claimed only one, for best...
By Dwight Brown NNPA Film Critic R.I.P. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Your story has been told. Your legacy passed on. Your strategies for non-violent...
(Entertainment Weekly) – In the wake of criticisms of Selma’s characterization of President Lyndon B. Johnson, director Ava DuVernay argued that people should “interrogate history.” In a...
Christopher Rosen, THE HUFFINGTON POST (Huffington Post)—An Oscar contender isn’t an Oscar contender without cries of inaccuracy. That’s where Ava DuVernay’s “Selma” is at right...
DERRIK J. LANG, AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — The civil rights drama “Selma” led all films Tuesday when it collected eight nominations for NAACP...
(USA Today) – It’s news to the ears of anybody wishing and hoping for a female-driven superhero franchise: Warner Bros. is releasing a Wonder Woman movie June 23,...
