The United States vs. Billie Holiday is a personal project for Andra Day. She cites Holiday as an early influence on her vocal style. And she chose her stage name as an homage to the performer. Day’s first album came … Continued

From singing to the anti-makser/Q-Anon “March for Our Rights” rally in Olympia, Washington to being kettled by police during an unpermitted Chicago rally, perhaps no one captured the feeling of 2020 quite like British actor/comedian Sacha Baron Cohen. Between the … Continued

Shaka King’s directorial debut Judas and the Black Messiah follows the true story of Chicago Black Panther Chairman Fred Hampton’s (Daniel Kaluuya) murder by the FBI. In the late 1960s, 21-year-old Hampton was making quite a name for himself as … Continued

In 2020, Eliza Hittman directed and wrote one of the most gut wrenching and poignant films of the year with Never Rarely Sometimes Always. The indie masterpiece deservingly won the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Screenplay. The … Continued

Riz Ahmed is a British actor who has been developing an increasingly wide-ranging body of work since his breakout role to American audiences in Nightcrawler. But Ahmed had been collecting great roles in a slew of mid-2000s indies (including The … Continued

One of the first high-profile films to have been written, filmed and released during the COVID-era, Malcolm & Marie teams writer and director Sam Levinson up again with Euphoria star Zendaya and John David Washington. This drama combines the intensity … Continued

Bo Burnham may be famous for his hilarious stand-up comedy routines, but over the last few years, he’s shown us that he can do more than make us laugh. In 2018 he made his feature film directorial debut with the … Continued

British star Carey Mulligan looks poised to break into the Best Actress race at this year’s Academy Awards for her performance in Emerald Fennell’s poppy revenge flick Promising Young Woman. And she certainly deserves it. Mulligan delivers a multi-layered, electric … Continued

Robin Wright will forever hold a soft spot in our hearts for her role as Princess Buttercup in Rob Reiner’s 1987 adaptation of William Goldman’s The Princess Bride. But it’s been over three decades since Wright’s first starring role, and … Continued

The afternoon of January 26th, 2020 is, and will forever be etched in the minds of fans across the globe.  This week marks the 1 year anniversary of Kobe Bryant’s passing. The late-great basketball phenom passed, along with his daughter, … Continued