One of these movies is what you should watch tonight. This weekend's choices showcase ace acting performances from Ethan Hawke in "Blue Moon" and Brendan Fraser in "Rental Family." The kids get ...

Nollywood actress Ajara Lasisi, aka Aunty Ajara, has died following a prolonged illness. Actor and producer Tobi Oladele, aka Teemoney, announced the actress’ death in a video shared online on ...

This story is featured in the March/April 2025 issue of ESSENCE. In 2017, sisters Tochi and Ebele ­Anueyiagu shared a single image on their new Instagram account: a still of Nigerian film and beauty ...

One of these movies is what you should watch tonight. This weekend's choices include theatrical releases arriving on streaming like "The Running Man" and "Black Phone 2." There are original streaming ...

'Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Infinity Castle’ (Crunchy Roll) What do we do when we start making a movie? We yell “action!” because that’s what this medium is all about. On a basic, ...

Denzel Washington in 'Highest 2 Lowest' (A25/Apple Original Films) Everyone loves a good thriller, but not everyone can define what a thriller is. There’s a lot of overlap with action and horror ...

You wouldn’t call 2025 an “off” year for horror — more like an odd one. Both A24 and Neon continued to back several scary-movie auteurs (the prolific Osgood Perkins, the brothers Danny and Michael ...

Movies are the great escape. “Optimistic endings, passionate romances,” sings the incarcerated dreamer of “Kiss of the Spider Woman,” who looks to old Hollywood movies as an oasis of beauty and faith.

2025 was a year that posed a lot of questions for movie lovers: Did the success of Sinners prove that there was still a mass audience hungry for original (read: non-IP) stories on a blockbuster level?

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Solomon Waliaula received funding from the International European Research Council as a contributor to the book Contemporary African Screen Worlds: Decolonizing Film and Screen Studies (2019-2025).

Dan Tana died on Saturday, Aug. 16, in Belgrade, Serbia from cancer The former soccer player worked his way up in Hollywood restaurants before opening his own Dan Tana’s Restaurant was frequented by ...