Viola Davis

Viola Davis is The Woman King in First Trailer for Gina Prince-Bythewood’s Historical Epic

After breaking out with Love & Basketball at the start of the century, Gina Prince-Bythewood delivered her first action epic with The Old Guard just a few ...

Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom Review: Chadwick Boseman Gives the Best Performance of His Truncated Career

Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom director George C. Wolfe and screenwriter Ruben Santiago-Hudson may not bring the same cinematic eye that Denzel Washington infused in...

Viola Davis & Chadwick Boseman Make Music in First Trailer for Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

After her Oscar-winning work in 2016’s Fences, Viola Davis is continuing her longstanding relationship with August Wilson in Netflix’s upcoming Ma Rainey’s Bla...

News

Shia LaBeouf Is Writing a Film About Auschwitz for Abel Ferrara

Martin Scorsese Is “About to Start Making” a New Film Concerning Jesus

Watch: Sofia Coppola Directs Keanu Reeves in 100th Anniversary Celebration of Suntory Whisky

Trailers

Joshua Burge Takes a Nocturnal Journey Through NYC in Exclusive Trailer for Pratfall

Michael Cera Returns Home in First Trailer for Dustin Guy Defa’s The Adults

First Full Trailer for Greta Gerwig’s Barbie Enters the Real World

Reviews

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse Review: A Web of Formal Inventiveness and Narrative Exhaustion

Falcon Lake Review: Charlotte Le Bon’s Directorial Debut Grounds First Love in Gothic Horror

Cannes Review: Cobweb is a Dextrous but Overdrawn Meta-Filmmaking Exercise from Kim Jee-woon

Features

Posterized June 2023: Asteroid City, Past Lives, Falcon Lake & More

The Best Films from the 2023 Cannes Film Festival

Recommended New Books on Filmmaking: Revisiting Lost Highway, Watching John Ford, and a Guide to Queer Cinema

Interviews

You Can’t Meditate High: Abel Ferrara on Spiritual Transformation, the State of Humanity, and Padre Pio

Unpacking David Lynch’s Life-Long Obsession with The Wizard of Oz

Nicole Holofcener on Fighting for Small Character Moments and the Useless Aspects of Film School

Podcasts

The Film Stage Show Ep. 509 – Master Gardener (with Diana Drumm)

The B-Side – Billy Bob Thornton (with Nicholas Gray)

The Film Stage Show Ep. 508 – BlackBerry (with Daniel Reynolds)

Viola Davis

Viola Davis is The Woman King in First Trailer for Gina Prince-Bythewood’s Historical Epic

Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom Review: Chadwick Boseman Gives the Best Performance of His Truncated Career

Viola Davis & Chadwick Boseman Make Music in First Trailer for Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom