For Samanta Helou, the music of jazz saxophonist Kamasi Washington and his band makes her feel transcendent and reassured, emotions she needed right before meet...
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk (Tristar Pictures)
“I’m not crazy,” said director Ang Lee at the world premiere of his latest film, Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime...
Brad (Ryan McCartan)and Janet (Victoria Justice) brave the storm. Credit: John Medland/FOX
Released in 1975 and diluted in 2016, The Rocky Horror Picture Sh...
Dia de los Muertos is a way for us to celebrate life through death. To reconcile with our eminent mortality. To connect with those no longer with us....
“Who is you, man?” might be the last question that Chiron, the protagonist of Barry Jenkins’ new film Moonlight, wants to hear. For a gay black man raised in the Miami projects, he’s spent years crafting the mask that enables his survival, tenuous as it may be....
Raul Morales, chef of Taqueria Vista Hermosa, sits in a table across from his bustling food stand in Los Angeles’s Mercado La Paloma recounting his first moments in this country. Morales came to the United States from Mexico when he was 19 years old, temporarily leaving his wife and children in Michoacan....
Armie Hammer, Nate Parker, and Jayson Warner Smith in The Birth of a Nation (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
Creating a film amounts to a series of choices. In br...
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Ava DuVernay is having a moment. At a time when privileged auteurs are being paid exorbitant...
