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Amazon MGM Studios’ Orion Pictures has revealed the official trailer and poster for Nickel Boys, based on the Colson Whitehead novel. The film will open in select theaters on October 25 ...
Academy Award-winner Bong Joon Ho brings audiences his latest film, Mickey 17, while a pair of directors release the animated film Night of the Zoopocalypse. Robert Pattinson is superb as Mickey ...
Look, I’ll shout out Black filmmakers all day, every day. Nia DaCosta, Steve McQueen, Ava DuVernay, Barry Jenkins, Antoine ...
Spoiler alert! This story contains major details about the plot and ending of "The Nickel Boys" (now showing in New York theaters, opening in Los Angeles Dec. 20 and releasing wide in January).
Nickel Boys might not be the biggest name among the movies nominated for Best Picture at the 2025 Oscars. But just by being nominated, RaMell Ross’ second feature film has already achieved a ...
I write this because “Nickel Boys,” which is the film of 2024 for me as well as a few other folks, will have to fight for the audience it deserves. It’s the narrative feature debut for ...
Nickel Academy, a reform school for troubled Florida boys, is not a place of learning—it’s a prison camp. The wards perform manual labor for no pay, can be killed if they try to flee ...
From its opening scene with closeups of fruit hanging high up in a tree, cigarette smoke floating through the air and hands shuffling cards, “Nickel Boys” makes you feel like you’re taking a ...
How can anyone process that scale of buried grief? Author Colson Whitehead funneled that sorrow into “The Nickel Boys,” a 2019 novel about two Black friends at the lightly fictionalized Nickel ...
The making of “Nickel Boys” — a film that follows two young Black boys, Elwood (Ethan Herisse) and Turner (Brandon Wilson), as they navigate a brutal reform school — presented a unique set ...
History is a matter of perspective. "Nickel Boys," directed by RaMell Ross and adapted from Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, follows Elwood (Ethan Herisse) and Turner (Brandon ...