With this week’s release of “Miss Bala” and “The Upside” earlier this month, American remakes of foreign films are a hot trend in Hollywood...

As the eagerly anticipated “Crazy Rich Asians” arrives in theaters this week, one of the most underrepresented minority groups will get a r...

On August 10, “BlacKkKlansman” will be released in theaters nationwide, marking the 38th feature film in the storied filmography of Spike L...

Ask any director and they’ll tell you that getting your first feature funded and completed is no easy task. And when you’re a director of c...

Taking place at the start of the blockbuster-driven summer season, the Cannes Film Festival always holds a special place in the film calend...

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ll know that “Black Panther” has taken the world by storm. With its record-smashing box office ...

In just a matter of hours, the 70th annual Cannes Film Festival will open with Arnaud Desplechin’s “Ismael’s Ghosts,” kicking off an 11-day...

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Palme d'Or winner Dheepan With this year's Sundance, Berlin, Tribeca and Cannes Film Festivals behind us, I decided to do a litt...

After Wednesday's opening day festivities, the 2015 Cannes Film Festival is fully underway, bringing cinephiles together at the mecca o...

Ever since the earliest days of cinema, international actors have been embraced by American audiences for being among the best in the busin...

After a long awards season with an abundance of precursors, the Oscar ceremony can sometimes feel anticlimatic in terms of the winners. Most...

I was recently asked to contribute an article to the site Only Oscar. It was concieved in response to a dissenting opinion that the Oscars ...

Earlier this year, the New York Times ran an article titled " Coming Soon - A Breakout Year for Black Cinema ". It put a welcome...

In the past couple of weeks I've twice come across instances where persons have felt inclined to give a film the "0 star" rati...