Acquisition: ARRAY announces the film distribution collective’s seventeenth feature film acquisition, TEACH US ALL. Marking the directorial debut from Sonia Lowman, the timely documentary examines the U.S. education system from the historic Little Rock Crisis to present day disparities in access that are culminating into a resegregation of schools across the nation. ARRAY has acquired […]
The Capital City Black Film Festival (CCBFF) today announced the premiere of the first full episode of OWN’s new docu-series Black Love and spotlight documentary COPWATCH. The four episode docu-series, Black Love, from filmmakers and real-life married couple Codie Elaine Oliver and Tommy Oliver (The Perfect Guy) and Confluential Films, will screen at CCBFF […]
Seven episodes in and it’s finally happened. In “I Know My Soul” Ralph Angel (Kofi Siriboe) finally tells his sisters that his father, Ernest (Glynn Turman) created a handwritten will that left the farm to him. Oh, boy. This week’s episode starts immediately where the last one left off, with the sisters and Ralph Angel […]
We are not quite at the halfway point of the second season of Queen Sugar, but we’re getting close as this season lasts for 16 episodes, up from last season’s 13. In the last episode, things seemed to be going well. The mill was opening. Nova (Rutina Wesley) had a promising new love interest. Micah […]
The trailer to Ava DuVernay’s anticipated A Wrinkle In Time is finally here—and it looks spectacular! Just look at Oprah! The Disney and Dreamworks film, slated to debut next March, is an adaptation of the 1963 children’s classic book by Madeleine L’Engle. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the film stars Storm Reid as Meg Murry, a young girl whose scientist […]
The upcoming Disney sci-fi film looks absolutely spectacular!
Oscar-nominated director Ava DuVernay will write and direct a Netflix miniseries about the Central Park Five, a group of young Black men wrongfully convicted of a brutal rape in New York City in 1989.
It was a pretty packed Episode Four ‘My Soul’s High Song’ of Queen Sugar‘s second season. There are 16 episodes this year, but it seems like they’re going by pretty quickly. Sigh. The characters are so beautifully shot on this show and the family moments are so warm and beautiful that you want to just […]
Is Ralph Angel going to confront his sisters about owning the farm? Are Charley and Davis ever going to rekindle their love? We have so many questions and it is finally the time for us to get some answers! Queen Sugar returns with a two-night premiere tonight and tomorrow at 10 p.m. ET/PT. The TJMS crew […]
After intense negotiations at the Cannes Film Festival, Netflix has nabbed a film project starring Grammy winner Rihanna and Oscar winner Lupita Nyong’o, based on a storyline created entirely via Twitter. Ava DuVernay has signed on to direct and Insecure star Issa Rae is in talks to write the screenplay. Twitter also lobbied for both ladies. The […]
The Rihanna & Lupita movie of Twitter dreams may actualize.
Season 2 of Ava Duvernay’s OWN series Queen Sugar will premiere on June 20, while Season 1 will stream on Hulu beginning April 21, under a new deal announced Thursday by the streaming service and Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution. https://www.instagram.com/p/BS2MCwMBEAa/?taken-by=kofisiriboe&hl=en The show’s second season will launch with a two-night event, airing new episodes on […]
