Singer Mariah Carey is hooking up with director Lee Daniels“The Butler,” for a part that, at first glance, makes one go, “huh?” But then again if you’ve followed…

Memphis, new ‘warts and all’ biopic by British director Paul Greengrass, will focus on last days of civil rights leader’s life  Forest Whitaker is in…

  For years, filmmaker Cynthia Mort sought to bring Nina Simone’s story to the screen, yet when the door finally opened, a wave of anticipation…

A first look at The Butler, starring Forest Whitaker and featuring Jane Fonda as Nancy Reagan andOprah Winfrey in her first film since 1998′s Beloved. The Weinstein Company releases it October 18. article courtesy…

  On a frigid Saturday in early March as the midnight hour draws nigh, Mary J. Blige materializes on an outdoor basketball court sporting a…

Will Smith and son Jaden are teaming up onscreen for the first time since 2006′s The Pursuit of Happynessin the upcoming science-fiction thriller After Earth.   Will…

Although filmmaker Shola Lynch disagrees, civil rights icon Angela Davis said her imprisonment in the 1970s was just a small part of the political movement. “I had to recognize at…

  “If I had a chance to rename the movie, I would have named it Saved”- Ella Joyce This weekend in theaters, film and theater…

  Angela Davis is more than a Communist Party leader and activist, she’s a movement. During the emergence of the Black Panther Party, a young Angela…

  Hey guys, OK, so one time I had an accident in my car. I was so upset. I had the car towed to the…

Chadwick Boseman as Jackie Robinson in “42″ *The Jackie Robinson biopic “42,” about Major League Baseball’s first African American player, would not be opening in theaters next…

Tyler Perry recently attended the red carpet premiere for his latest film “Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor,” and there the prominent film director spoke…