The portrait of a tortured, enigmatic, brilliant artist, Nina Simone, whose upbringing and isolation during the Jim Crow-era created a simmering inner-rage culminating
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One of the films that is generating considerable buzz is the latest from writer/director Rick Famuyiwa. The antithesis of Ice Cube’s “It Was
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While last year’s Sundance Film Festival reveled in serious fare, this year there will definitely be a lighter tone that permeates throughout the
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U.S. DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION 3½ Minutes (Director: Marc Silver) — On Nov. 23, 2012, an unarmed 17-year-old, Jordan Russell Davis, was shot at a
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