On the night of February 25, 1964 Muhammed Ali, then still known as Cassius Clay, made history when he beat Sonny Liston to win the world heavyweight championship title. Regina King’s feature film directorial debut, written by Kemp Powers who … Continued

Vanessa Kirby delivers a powerhouse performance in Hungarian director Kornél Mundruczó’s new drama Pieces of a Woman. The film centers around Boston couple Martha (Kirby) and Sean Carson (Shia LaBeouf) who lose their newborn daughter in a traumatic home birth … Continued

This week we’re doing our PROVOKR Pick a little differently than usual. Instead of recommending a movie that is coming out this Friday, we are promoting Promising Young Woman, which came out in theaters on December 25th. And while Promising … Continued

Wonder Woman/Diana Prince (Gal Gadot) is back in a sequel to the groundbreaking 2017 Wonder Woman movie. Wonder Woman 1984 is set in, yes, 1984, a significant change from the first picture’s World War I setting. The sequel sees our … Continued

In Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom tensions come to a boiling point for a group of African-American musicians during an afternoon recording session. While the band awaits the arrival of their lead vocalist Ma “Mother of the Blues” Rainey (Viola Davis), … Continued

In Ryan Murphy’s upcoming adaptation of the smash-Broadway hit The Prom, two New York City thespians suffering from a recent theatrical flop, descend on a small Indiana town to boost their public image by helping a young lesbian who has … Continued

Orson Welles’ 1941 feature film debut Citizen Kane is one of the most famous and influential films in American cinematic history. It is often considered the greatest movie ever made. The story follows the fictional newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane’s … Continued

The winter holiday season is upon us, and you know what that means: a constant stream of Christmas-set romances being churned out by Lifetime, Hallmark, and Netflix. One thing that these films generally have in common is that the romantic … Continued

In 2017, veteran British actor Francis Lee made his directorial debut with the quiet, romantic drama God’s Own Country. Set in the Yorkshire countryside, the movie follows Johnny Saxby (Josh O’Connor) a lonely, young farmer who lives with his emotionally … Continued

In the upcoming neo-Western Let Him Go, Kevin Costner and Diane Lane star as retired sheriff George and wife, Margaret Blackledge. While grieving the loss of their only son, they leave Montana to save their young grandson, Jimmy, from the … Continued