Tambay Obenson

The former IndieWire staffer and Shadow and Act founder wants to give African cinema the attention it deserves.

Measurable diversity in the director’s chair continues to be stagnant, and it’s not COVID’s fault.

Co-starring Aunjanue Ellis and Holt McCallany, the story may not win any points for originality, but its strong performances make it worthwhile.

“Power Book IV: Force” is strictly for loyalists.

The last time an actress of color won the Best Actress Oscar was Halle Berry for “Monster’s Ball” 20 years ago.

Poitier is survived by a legacy of films, including “Lilies of the Field,” which made him the first Black man to win a Best Actor Oscar, and “In the Heat of the Night.”

Any new adaptation of Vernes’ most adapted classic ought to be as adventurous as the story that inspired it. The new PBS version is not.

There’s plenty of nonsense to navigate in this mediocre suspense thriller, in spite of its decorated cast.

Despite sweeping changes to Academy voting membership and policies to address the problem, change remains inconsistent.

Taylor Sheridan’s Paramount+ drama series offers little intrinsic value to the narrative chronicling of one of the most transformative periods in U.S. history.

A father-daughter warrior duo take on Australia’s colonial history and bloodsucking parasites with promising results.

Exclusive: It may have been shut out at the Emmys, and Jenkins believes the Amazon binge criticism was valid, “but that they don’t care about the show is just completely false.”

History isn’t on the side of African filmmakers when it comes to recognition from the Academy.

An unexpected career boost has provided the artist with a platform on which to counter a long history of purposefully maligned representation.

A month into the job, Neil Phillips was candid in a conversation with IndieWire about the organization’s mistakes, as he settles into the work of correcting them.

Now in its second season, this overstuffed Michael Rainey Jr.-led offshoot is too silly for a substantive critique, even as it remains one of the cabler’s most popular series.

Scholar Dr. Allyson Nadia Field’s discovery of the 1898 film and the impact of seeds planted by Black film pioneers are now getting the reevaluation they so richly deserve.

Progress in front of and behind the camera continues to be incremental despite popular claims of a “racial reckoning” and a renaissance for non-white creatives.

It arrives perfectly timed as the country reflects on how the media constructs problematic narratives around the missing, prompted by Gabby Petito’s disappearance.

Featuring a star-studded cast of talking heads, John Maggio’s portrait of one of the 20th century’s most celebrated artists doesn’t dig deep enough.