Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, the Atlanta-filmed sequel to Marvel Studios’ 2018 blockbuster Black Panther, was the subject of a widely reported panel at Comic-Con 2022 in San Diego last weekend. And in a quieter way, it was great exposure for Atlanta as a film-production beehive, too, though some in attendance may have been oblivious to…
The powerhouse film version of August Wilson’s Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom on gives us two of 2020’s best screen performances. One is simply her latest, the other is his last. The phenomenal Viola Davis plays the title role, Ma Rainey (born Gertrude Pridgett), Mother of the Blues, born in Columbus, Georgia, and working the Chitlin’…
(Editor’s note: We begin our new “Creative in Residence” series of guest editors today with Floyd Hall, a prominent writer, producer and documentarian. A story generated from Hall’s residency will be published each Thursday for the next four weeks.) :: We often only know the past because we invent it; we only know the future…
Though it was shot long before this spring’s global uprising against how police treat people of color, Spike Lee’s compelling but uneven Vietnam-and-brotherhood drama Da 5 Bloods couldn’t feel more timely. The film is available on Netflix beginning today (June 12). In one of its flashbacks, set in 1968, news of Martin Luther King Jr.’s…
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