Black Excellence within the Black Experience of TV and Film
Brandon Broussard’s Essence Fest Best Short winner is funny, sharp, and feature-ready. There’s a difference between a short film that’s simply well-made and one that leaves an audience already lobbying for a feature-length follow-up before the credits roll. Switches is squarely the latter. Starring Sinqua Walls and Chanté Adams as Jake and Dawn, a married […]
Some legends don’t retire. They get exiled. Shemar Moore is back as Hondo Harrelson in S.W.A.T. Exiles, the Starz spinoff of the long-running CBS series, and the first teaser makes one thing clear: Hondo hasn’t lost a step, even if his new team isn’t convinced yet. “Why bring a relic like Hondo back in?” new […]
The treasure hunt may be over, but the Outer Banks universe is just getting started. As the fifth and final season of Outer Banks premieres on Netflix today, creators Josh Pate, Jonas Pate and Shannon Burke have confirmed that a prequel series, tentatively titled Kildare, has entered formal development at the streamer. “We’re working on […]
The ruse is running out of time. Hulu has dropped the official trailer for Season 2 of Chad Powers, and things are getting considerably more complicated for Russ Holliday (Glen Powell) and his elaborate double life as fictional college quarterback Chad Powers. With Ricky (Perry Mattfeld) now wise to the fact that the disgraced former […]
Emmy-nominated writer and playwright Janine Nabers is bringing her darkly funny new play The Peterson Show to Los Angeles for its world premiere. Directed by Michelle Bossy, the production opens September 19 and runs through October 26 at Atwater Village Theatre, with Pay-What-You-Want preview performances September 16 through 18. CLICK HERE FOR TICKETS. The play […]
Netflix has released the first teaser trailer and a batch of new first-look images for Bass X Machina, the upcoming steampunk sci-fi Western from creator LeSean Thomas and Studio Mir, setting a November 2026 release on the streamer. The visuals make a strong first impression. The steampunk aesthetic is dialed up across every frame, blending […]
Dennis Haysbert and Anji White are among seven new principal cast members joining Deify, the indie psychological horror film from brother filmmakers Carmelo and Nicholas Chimera, which already has Neal McDonough and Skeet Ulrich attached. Also joining the cast are Ashley Greene (Twilight), Kirk Acevedo (Dawn of the Planet of the Apes), Casey Hartnett (Terrifier […]
The official trailer has arrived for Wildcards, the courtroom thriller from writer-director Wes Miller that opens exclusively in theaters nationwide on August 27, with special Q&A engagements at select stops. The film follows the trial of Theodore Sterling (Crew Morrow), a privileged young man accused of sexually assaulting a young Black woman. As jurors from […]
As Michael crosses $1 billion at the worldwide box office and cements itself as the highest-grossing music biopic in history, Jaafar Jackson is addressing one of the most charged questions surrounding the franchise: will the sequel finally confront the allegations of child sexual abuse that have followed his uncle’s name for three decades? In a […]
Lanterns is making history. The DC Studios series has scored the biggest premiere for any DC Studios series on Max while also landing among the top five series premieres of all time on the platform, drawing 9.3 million global viewers and 6.6 million in the US in its first three days of availability across HBO […]