That movies are capable of being machines of empathy, as Roger Ebert once said, is taken as a given — it’s just a matter of how that empathy is generated. You might have heard that Nickel Boys, director RaMell Ross’ adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s 2019 novel, takes a bold and …
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For Ava DuVernay, whose projects like 13th, Selma, and When They See Us challenge viewers to contend with the gut-wrenching racism that’s colored American history, Origin provides a more global perspective on racial inequality and its foundation within social hierarchies. “I try to make soul food with my movies, not …
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It is a truth universally acknowledged (or at least it should be by now) that America is a country founded upon — as well as cursed, colonized, and fertilized by — a bedrock of racism that continues to this day. Should you be unable to wrap your head around that …
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Trauma is inescapable in the first trailer for Origin, Ava DuVernay‘s forthcoming film chronicling Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Isabel Wilkerson as she sits in generation-spanning grief to write the haunting book Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents. The film hits theaters Jan. 19. “If you look closely, you can see something …
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While much of the talk surrounding this year’s Venice Film Festival has been about three men who stand accused of heinous offenses, the 80th edition of the fest also made history: Ava DuVernay, whose film Origin is premiering at the fest, became the first African American woman to have a …
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This post contains spoilers for “The Question,” the finale of Justified: City Primeval. And so Justified says goodbye to one Boyd, and welcomes back another. In the concluding chapter of the revival miniseries Justified: City Primeval, Timothy Olyphant‘s Raylan Givens finally had his long-awaited showdown with the Oklahoma Wildman himself, …
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