Netflix has released the first trailer and a batch of images for its limited series When They See Us. Directed by Ava DuVernay, the series tell the story of the Central Park Five – five teenagers of colour who were wrongfully convicted of a rape and assault they did not commit and spans the 25 […]
Movie Review – If Beale Street Could Talk (2018)
If Beale Street Could Talk, 2018. Written and directed by Barry Jenkins. Starring KiKi Layne, Stephan James, Regina King, Colman Domingo, Teyonah Parris, Michael Beach, Aunjanue Ellis, Ebony Obsidian, Dominique Thorne, Diego Luna, Finn Wittrock, Ed Skrein, Emily Rios, Pedro Pascal, Brian Tyree Henry, and Dave Franco. SYNOPSIS: A woman in Harlem desperately scrambles to […]
Trailer for Lee Daniels-produced Pimp starring Keke Palmer
Ahead of its release next month, a trailer has arrived online for Lee Daniels-produced drama Pimp. Written and directed by Christine Crokos, the film sees Keke Palmer starring alongside Haley Ramm, Aunjanue Ellis, Vanessa Morgan, Mike E. Winfield, Edi Cathegi, and DMX; watch it here… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWnQelN-cjM Born into the Pimp Game, a struggling female Pimp, […]
Lovecraft Country adds Courtney B. Vance, Elizabeth Debicki and Aunjanue Ellis
Deadline is reporting that Courtney B. Vance (American Crime Story: The People vs. OJ Simpson), Aunjanue Ellis (Quantico) and Elizabeth Debicki (Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2) have signed on to star in HBO’s Lovecraft Country, a new straight-to-series drama from Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions and J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot. Based on the 2016 novel […]
Movie Review – The Birth of a Nation (2016)
The Birth of a Nation, 2016. Written and Directed by Nate Parker. Starring Nate Parker, Armie Hammer, Penelope Ann Miller, Jackie Earle Haley, Mark Boone Jr., Aja Naomi King, Aunjanue Ellis, Dwight Henry, Gabrielle Union, and Tony Espinosa. SYNOPSIS: Nat Turner, a literate slave and preacher in the antebellum South, orchestrates an uprising. Addressing the elephant […]
Nate Parker’s The Birth of a Nation gets a new trailer
Fox Searchlight has released a new trailer for the hotly anticipated drama The Birth of a Nation, which sees Nate Parker directing and leading a cast that includes Armie Hammer, Jackie Earle Haley, Gabrielle Union, Aunjanue Ellis, Aja Naomi King, Colman Domingo and Penelope Ann Miller; watch it below after the official synopsis… Set against the antebellum South, […]
Watch the first trailer for The Birth of a Nation
A first trailer has arrived online for director Nate Parker’s upcoming drama The Birth of a Nation. Based on the true story of Nat Turner, an enslaved African-American who led a rebellion of slaves in Virginia in 1831, the film sees Parker leading a cast that also includes Armie Hammer, Jackie Earle Haley, Gabrielle Union, […]