First Reels | Michael
The Michael trailer doesn’t play like a preview. It plays like a proposition. More manifesto than montage, it signals a film intent on capturing Michael Jackson not just as a man, but as a global phenomenon.
Colman Domingo
Reel Reviews | Dead Man’s Wire
A true-crime story told from the other end of the gun. Dead Man’s Wire revisits a chilling 1977 hostage standoff, reframing it as an intimate psychological drama centered on the victim rather than the captor.
Reel Reviews | Wicked: For Good
Cynthia Erivo soars, Ariana Grande surprises, but Wicked: For Good can’t escape the shadow of its own first act.
Reel Reviews | The Running Man
Glen Powell headlines a brutal reimagining of Stephen King’s The Running Man, shifting the 1987 cult classic into a tense, socially charged thriller.
Conversations | Colman Domingo
On the latest episode of Conversations, two-time Black Reel Award winner Colman Domingo sits down with us to talk about his upcoming limited series, The Madness.
Reel Reviews | Sing Sing
A theatre troupe finds an escape from the realities of incarceration through the creation of a stage play in this film based on a real-life rehabilitation program and featuring a cast that includes formerly incarcerated actors, Sing Sing.
Reel Reviews | Drive-Away Dolls
The best thing that could be said about Drive-Away Dolls is that it is just the typical Coen Brothers’ film, missing a Coen.Â
Reel Reviews | The Color Purple
One of the most anticipated films of the year, The Color Purple, hits theaters in time for Christmas Day and we take a DEEP dive into the latest adaptation.