All those “based on a true story” movies get graded for accuracy
Every year, just in time for Oscar consideration, studios release a slew of prestige movies supposedly based on true…
Read This: Oprah Winfrey and Ava DuVernay talk Black Lives Matter
Preferring to speak of “inclusion,” filmmaker Ava DuVernay cringes at the buzzword “diversity,” even though it’s a term…
What Race shows about Hollywood’s treatment of prejudice
Jesse Owens deserves a biopic. His life was important and dramatic, and it even lends itself to a narrative…
Here’s what’s coming to Amazon Prime in December
Now that our Thanksgiving binge-watching guide has properly whetted your appetites, it’s time to look at what’s coming…
David Oyelowo is now being typecast as Martin Luther King, Jr.
David Oyelowo’s stirring turn as Martin Luther King, Jr. in Selma was generally agreed to be an impressive achievement,…
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American Crime: “Episode Eight”
How much do you have to know about a person before you feel comfortable making a value judgement about them? For most…
Here’s an exclusive deleted scene from the Selma Blu-ray
Ava DuVernay’s Martin Luther King, Jr. biopic Selma is available for digital download as of today, and Paramount shared…
Oscars protest canceled at Ava DuVernay’s request
Although the Oscars tried to prove it has black friends by cutting to every person of color in the audience at one…
Birdman and Grand Budapest Hotel take home most of the Oscars
Ain’t Hollywood grand? Not the actual neighborhood or whatever, obviously, but the idea of Hollywood as shorthand for…
Interviews with Oscar voters reveal they are kind of awful, vaguely racist
While we at The A.V. Club can only discuss the Oscar race, make predictions, and complain about snubs, The Hollywood…
Maybe the Oscars got it right this year
In the grand spirit of TV Roundtable and Music Roundtable, welcome to the creatively titled Film Roundtable, where A.V.…
Relive the year in cinema with a supercut of Oscar nominees
For the busy cinephile who doesn’t have time to sit through all the nominees before the Oscars are handed out on…
David Oyelowo says Hollywood has a “white guilt” problem
Hollywood likes its black actors just fine; it just prefers to see them in roles where they are subservient to their…
Selma’s Ava DuVernay and David Oyelowo are making a Hurricane Katrina movie
Selma director Ava DuVernay and star David Oyelowo enjoy each other’s company so much they’ve decided to make another…
John Lewis’ March offers a harrowing look at the civil rights movement
Each week, Big Issues focuses on a newly released comic book of significance. This week, it’s March: Book Two. Written…
Weekend Box Office: Maybe if Michael Mann had called it American Hacker…
Look, everyone pretty much knew that American Sniper was going to be a hit. It did spectacular business in limited…
Selma’s snubs speak volumes about Hollywood and the Oscars
Looks like it wasn’t the screeners. Conventional wisdom as to why Selma was shut out of the SAG, PGA, DGA, and BAFTA…
Weekend Box Office: Your money has been Taken
Despite being one of the weakest films to come out of the ongoing Liam Neeson revival, Taken 3 managed to disappear…
Selma and The Imitation Game accused of factual inaccuracy, per Oscar tradition
The 87th Annual Academy Awards are only a couple of months away, leading to much spirited discussion among movie fans…
Selma’s David Oyelowo on the challenges of playing Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
David Oyelowo doesn’t simply play Dr. Martin Luther King in Ava DuVernay’s arresting and bold biopic Selma. He becomes…