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Gil Robertson, the President and co-founder of The African American Film Critics Association (“AAFCA”) announced the winners of the 14th annual AAFCA Awards honoring outstanding achievement in film. Winners and special honorees will be celebrated at the 14th Annual AAFCA Awards on Wednesday, March 1st at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel. “The Woman King,” “Till,” “Black Panther:…

All children of iconic artists struggle to create their own identities, but few carried a burden as great as that of singer Lisa Marie Presley, the only child of Elvis Presley and his wife Priscilla. Elvis died in 1977 when Lisa Marie was nine. Lisa Marie died last week of a heart attack, and spent…

On January 2, 2022, I embarked on my second year-long binge of an artist’s work (52 weeks, 52 films). I first did a project like this in 2016 when I watched a different Woody Allen movie every week for a year, from his first film to his latest. For this project, I focused not on…

Roxanne Benjamin’s “There’s Something Wrong with the Children,” being unceremoniously dumped on digital and the newly rebranded MGM+ today, four days after a big horror drop day—look out for Tuesday the 17th!—is a film with interesting ideas that keeps faltering due to shoddy execution. It takes WAY too long to get anywhere interesting—at times, it…