‘Sound of Metal’ & ‘Judas And The Black Messiah’ Make AFI’s Top 10 Lists

Peter Debruge Chief Film CriticWith the Super Bowl behind us and the Oscars looming (and a pandemic-dampened Valentine’s Day as a marketing peg), American distributors are releasing their most robust slate of new releases in months this weekend.Awards contenders “Judas and the Black Messiah” (about the FBI-sanctioned murder of Fred Hampton) and “Land” (starring and directed by Robin Wright) arrive in theaters, hot off their premieres at this year’s virtual Sundance Film Festival.

hearing the singer perform on rival BBC show on Sunday, which left some convinced that it wasn't her after hearing her true voice. Another name that has popped up is Stacey Solomon after hearing the accent in her voice.

Get Out actor Daniel Kaluuya will be returning to the big screen next month as the leader of the Black Panther Party. The actor's next film titled Judas and the Black Messiah's trailer released on Tuesday and we're all glued to it.

Shaka King’s “Judas and the Black Messiah” has arrived at something of a cultural tipping point for Hollywood. Months before the tragedy of George Floyd‘s death or the millions of people marching in the streets for social justice, his period piece about the assassination of a prominent Chicago community leader, Fred Hampton, had wrapped production.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- A new museum two decades in the making is telling the interconnected story of Black musical genres through the lens of American history.The National Museum of African American Music, which opened with a virtual ribbon-cutting on Martin Luther King Jr.

When Dominique Fishback, who grew up in Brooklyn's East New York neighborhood, attended Pace University, she was the only Black American in her classes. It was an experience that inspired her to write Subverted, a one-woman play about Black identity and inequality in which she plays 22 characters.

UPDATED with latest: The Santa Barbara Film Festival on Tuesday unveiled the recipients of its Virtuosos Award, given annually to a group recognizing their noteworthy performances in film. The honors will be bestowed Saturday, April 3.

Martyrs demark the African-American experience. The documented lineage began with Emmett Till’s murder, his ravaged visage strewn across Jet Magazine’s issues, and continued through Medgar Evers’ assassinations, the four girls in the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing, Martin Luther King Jr, Malcolm X, and a cruel, etc.

The following podcast contains spoilers about Warner Bros.’ Judas and the Black Messiah

The Santa Barbara Film Festival said Friday that Delroy Lindo will receive the American Riviera Award during the 36th annual festival, which is set to run March 31-April 10. Lindo, part of the ensemble cast of Spike Lee’s Da 5 Bloods, will be feted April 8.

Before the pandemic shut theaters down last March, if you went to watch a film on the big screen, odds are you saw the disturbing trailer for “Saint Maud.” Unfortunately, when COVID-19 began to wreak havoc in the US, A24’s planned release kept getting delayed. Now, a year later, the horror-thriller is arriving in select theaters and on EPIX.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorDirector Fernando Frias new film, Mexican Oscar hopeful “I’m No Longer Here,” gives audiences a look into the American dream, and his deconstruction of it.Rather than cast well-known actors, Frias relied on his casting director to find non-actors to help tell the story of Ulises, played by Juan Daniel Garcia Treviño who goes on a journey from Monterrey, Mexico to New York for a new life, except his American dream isn’t all it’s expected to be.Frias teamed with

Joe Biden was sworn in as the 46th president of the United States on Wednesday, with Kamala Harris as vice president, and plenty of celebrities shared their excitement about Inauguration Day on social media.Former presidents Barack Obama, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton attended the historic inauguration in Washington, D.C.

Joe Biden was sworn in as the 46th president of the United States on Wednesday, with Kamala Harris as vice president, and plenty of celebrities shared their excitement about Inauguration Day on social media.Former presidents Barack Obama, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton attended the historic inauguration in Washington, D.C.