Movies

Wu-Tang’s RZA on the influence of Bruce Lee

How martial arts flows throughout the work of the influential hip-hop group

How Bruce Lee combined martial arts with the blaxploitation genre

Kung fu’s urban black audience was acknowledged by the casting of basketball legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar in Lee’s ‘Game of Death’

‘The High Note’ falls a little flat

Curiously, Tracee Ellis Ross plays second fiddle in a movie about an aging pop diva

The haunting prescience of ‘Enemy of the State’

Before the Patriot Act, before Edward Snowden, this Will Smith movie was asking important questions

‘The Photograph’ and ‘Premature’ come from two different traditions of black love in the movies

One is a descendant of the Black Love Brat Pack. The other comes from an indie aesthetic.

Dithering ambivalence dooms ‘The Photograph’

Issa Rae and LaKeith Stanfield star in a romance that doesn’t give them enough to think, say, or do

Black romcom quiz

Joaquin Phoenix’s BAFTA speech was great, but let’s focus on the action

At the British Academy Film Awards, Phoenix called out the film industry that doesn’t seem to have room for anyone who isn’t a white man

Documentary on Russell Simmons’ alleged sexual misconduct premieres at Sundance

Oprah Winfrey and Apple TV+ backed out, leaving questions over film’s future