Lenny Kravitz’s daughter Zoe Kravitz is all grown up and forging a way for herself with a rising acting career. After starring in the first installment of the “Divergent” series, Zoe is set to make her appearance in highly anticipated follow-up “Insurgent.” Zoe opened up about her role as Christina to Refinery29, saying, “I […]
The Academy Awards have no problem honoring historical dramas, period pieces or scripts “based on a true story,” but has such admiration for these themes ever extended itself to films starring Black actors talking about “Black issues,” helmed by Black auteurs? When the 2015 nominations were announced, Selma was disappointingly absent from categories outside of Best Picture and Best […]
Ava Duvernay, whom many feel was snubbed for a Best Director nomination at this year’s Academy Awards, said that she would like to stop discussing the lack of diversity of this year’s Oscars. SEE ALSO: Ava Duvernay Will Direct And Produce CBS Pilot The director of “Selma,” which received a Best Picture nod, told The New […]
One Oscar voter is getting candid about the Academy Awards nominees, and even attacked Ava Duvernay‘s Best Picture hopeful, Selma, in an anonymous report for The Hollywood Reporter. The anonymous, female voter ripped apart the film about Martin Luther King, Jr.’s march to gain voting rights for Black Americans that started in Selma, Ala. She said that while it […]
The first movie of what I’m sure will be a trilogy for the series 50 Shades of Grey premiered worldwide Friday. The movie follows the love story of Anastasia Steele, a senior in college and Christian Grey, a successful business mogul. The two complete opposites, develop a submissive/dominant relationship due to their infatuation with each […]
We can’t even contain our excitement about this! The mega-talent duo of filmmaker Ava DuVernay and actor David Oyelowo are heading towards their third collaboration (following Middle Of Nowhere and Selma) with the announcement of a Hurricane Katrina-based love story and murder mystery coming soon! MUST READ: Oprah Along With ‘Selma’ Director & Actors To March In Selma […]
“Fruitvale Station” star Michael B. Jordan makes one hot Human Torch *pun intended.* After dreaming about Michael’s clothes melting away and revealing his chiseled chest, we finally got some visuals to “The Fantastic Four” re-imagining that has chicks losing their ish and racists’ panties in a bunch. In case you missed it, some really ignorant […]
Elliot Anderson (Kevin Costner) is suddenly left to care for his Black granddaughter Eloise after his wife was killed in a tragic car accident. However, Eloise’s paternal grandmother Rowena (Octavia Spencer) seeks to care for her, inciting a bitter custody battle that is proves family is everything but simply black or white. Spencer is […]
PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania–Selfie surprise with Sylvester Stallone! Tourists running up the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art– made famous in ‘Rocky’– got the ultimate shock: They ran into Sylvester Stallone who was there shooting a new movie, ‘Creed.’ READ MORE: Fox8.com Article Courtesy of WJW Fox 8 News Picture Courtesy of WPVI-TV Philadelphia […]
Ava Duvernay became the first Black Woman to be nominated for Best Director at the Golden Globes for her 2014 film “Selma.” While Ava didn’t take home the statuette, the nomination further solidified what viewers felt since reliving the historic Alabama march on the big screen — Ava is deserving of an award, because […]
Bobby Brown recently sat down for an interview with Shaun Robinson, which will air tomorrow night on Lifetime after the network’s highly anticipated Whitney Houston biopic, Whitney. In a clip from the interview, Brown reveals that he and Whitney cheated on one another during their marriage. “There was infidelity in the marriage, on both […]
Academy-award winning actress Lupita Nyong’o and David Oyelowo are once again teaming up for the silver screen. The two are currently in talks to star in Disney’s Queen Of Katwe. Deadline is reporting the film will focus on the true story of Phiona Mutesi, a young girl from the ghettos of Uganda who becomes a chess prodigy with the assistance […]